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It's pretty ridiculous, especially for a website that pushes free speech so much as its guiding principles. The information is clearly "of interest to a hacker

It's pretty ridiculous, especially for a website that pushes free speech so much as its guiding principles. The information is clearly "of interest to a hacker" by just how many people are upvoting the articles and how relevant it is to the US election in literally weeks. It stinks that people can just flag away facts that make them uncomfortable like this. It's kind of abuse of the flagging system IMO.

jjgreen 6y ago
Click the "vouch" button if you don't agree with the flag.
- mNovak 6y ago
  How much karma is required for that? I don't see the option
  - jjgreen 6y ago
    30 I believe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24134548 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24134548
    - mNovak 6y ago
      weird, I'm well above that threshold but didn't notice the option. Not usually in the business of of flagging/vouching
  - tertiary 6y ago
    That's probably part of the problem. Anybody can just sit around flagging content with a low karma threshold and much fewer people are allowed to vouch back. It's the exact opposite of the downvote threshold on here which is designed to keep people from just killing off opinions they disagree with.
    - detaro 6y ago
      You get vouch and flag permissions at the same karma level.
      - pwinnski 6y ago
        On this page, I see an option to flag, but not one to vouch. I've never seen an option to vouch.
        jjgreen 6y ago
        Ah, the vouch button replaces the flag button when there are enough flags to kill the post (it's then [flagged][dead]), you have to have "showdead" enabled in your preferences to see those of course
        pwinnski 6y ago
        Thanks! Okay, that seems to make it worse then. Because I can see that this post is flagged, but since it's not dead, I cannot help balance out the flagging. Only after it's completely dead can anyone try to resurrect it? Seems... unbalanced. But hey, overall the site works better than most, so okay.
  - bsg75 6y ago
    Enable showdead.
itg 6y ago
Political news is all over the internet,some people like to have spaces to get away from it.
detaro 6y ago
> especially for a website that pushes free speech so much as its guiding principles Where does HN do that?!

jjgreen 6y ago

Click the "vouch" button if you don't agree with the flag.

mNovak 6y ago
How much karma is required for that? I don't see the option
- jjgreen 6y ago
  30 I believe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24134548 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24134548
  - mNovak 6y ago
    weird, I'm well above that threshold but didn't notice the option. Not usually in the business of of flagging/vouching
- tertiary 6y ago
  That's probably part of the problem. Anybody can just sit around flagging content with a low karma threshold and much fewer people are allowed to vouch back. It's the exact opposite of the downvote threshold on here which is designed to keep people from just killing off opinions they disagree with.
  - detaro 6y ago
    You get vouch and flag permissions at the same karma level.
    - pwinnski 6y ago
      On this page, I see an option to flag, but not one to vouch. I've never seen an option to vouch.
      - jjgreen 6y ago
        Ah, the vouch button replaces the flag button when there are enough flags to kill the post (it's then [flagged][dead]), you have to have "showdead" enabled in your preferences to see those of course
        pwinnski 6y ago
        Thanks! Okay, that seems to make it worse then. Because I can see that this post is flagged, but since it's not dead, I cannot help balance out the flagging. Only after it's completely dead can anyone try to resurrect it? Seems... unbalanced. But hey, overall the site works better than most, so okay.
- bsg75 6y ago
  Enable showdead.

itg 6y ago

Political news is all over the internet,some people like to have spaces to get away from it.

detaro 6y ago

> especially for a website that pushes free speech so much as its guiding principles Where does HN do that?!