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Why was the post about Twitter bias flagged?
I think it’s important to give context. Link should be removed, but it’s still available in the RSS feed. But maybe re-direct to a fact checking site?
Ie.
These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward conservative causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports and omit reporting of information that may damage conservative causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/citizen-free-press/
- jpesal 6y agoPeople flag my posts too :-/ No explanation.
- ColinWright 6y ago@jpesal: I turned on "Show Dead", went to your profile, and checked out your links. I've never seen them before, and have no skin in the game, I just wanted to see why people might flag them. Personally, I can see no reason for them to be on HN. It's true, I say that about many posts, but in this case they may be great ... but what makes them of interest to the HN community? What connection is there with technology, start-ups, or computing? Assuming HN is a community with a common interest, but then wide interests, they will still, in general, not be interested in everything, so what do you think would attract this community to your work? This isn't a comment on the quality, it's just a sense that it's not resonating with this audience, and some people sense that and flag it to say: "I don't think this belongs here." In contrast ... why do you think it does belong here, on Hacker News, for this specific audience? @onyva: I read through that link several times, and I can't see why it's anything about Twitter bias. Also, I'm not sure why I should trust them more than anyone else. Again, I didn't flag it ... I never saw it ... but I can't see anything useful or intellectually engaging about it.
- gus_massa 6y ago@jpesal: Perhaps it is easier to understand looking at another topic. For example I like soccer, but if I post something about soccer it will be flagged 99% of the time. (The exceptions seams to be the Super Bowl, I blame USA centrism.) Some post about some tech related to sport may get better traction here, like augmented reality to determine where each player was, or some algorithm to predict the results in a big championship. It's not common that literature stories get traction,but there are exemptions from time to time, mostly some kind of science fiction. (Post about a famous author or book may get more traction.)
- sushshshsh 6y agoWho is to say that a post should or shouldn't be on the site? Isn't that why we have a downvoting and upvoting system? Flagging should be used for illegal, dangerous, and malicious content like gore, doxxing, viruses, etc. Flagging because you don't agree with the opinion of the content is childish, even if the content is severely incorrect.
- ColinWright 6y ago> Who is to say that a post should or shouldn't be on the site The mods, and the community. > Flagging should be used for illegal, dangerous, and malicious content like gore, doxxing, viruses, etc. Flagging is for when you think it doesn't belong. I agree with you that simply disagreeing with a post or comment isn't a reason to flag it, but when you think something is inappropriate for the site then you have a reason to flag it. Otherwise it becomes a complete free-for-all, with no focus, and experience tells us that that's a bad thing. And you can't downvote a submission.
- gus_massa 6y agoLink to the post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23881493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23881493 My guess it that it looks like a standard panel of a public website, where admins can ban an accounts. (Someone mod posted a screenshot of the admin version of HN a few years ago, it has a few additional options like adding or removing a penalty to a story so it goes up or down in the front page. My guess is the the page the mods use to see an user also has a few "semiban"/"ban"/"superban" options.) It's not surprising at all that they do some moderation. If the moderation process they are using is good or bad, and if it has a right or left bias, it is not visible from the screenshot.
- pmdulaney 6y agoMake a statement in favor of free speech: Don't flag EVER.