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Why is this flagged? Even if you disagree with the assessment, the relationship between the press and big tech described here seems very relevant to HN. Isn't
by beaner 6y ago
Why is this flagged? Even if you disagree with the assessment, the relationship between the press and big tech described here seems very relevant to HN.
Isn't removing it making its point?
- dang 6y agoUsers flagged it. That's usually what happened. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24890813 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24890813.
- beaner 6y agoAh, I always figured flagging put it in be a queue for review by a mod. Didn't know it happens automatically.
- dang 6y agoFor some reason people seem to be assuming that more lately (i.e. that "flagged" means mods did it). I'm not quite sure how to correct that notion. I suppose we could hyperlink "[flagged]" to an explanation...but would people click? It's not as if this isn't in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. Explanations don't seem to help much.
- lazugod 6y agoOr change the text itself to [flagged by users]?
- dang 6y agoThat would indeed be unambiguous. But it would also be verbose and there's something about that which doesn't fit the HN spirit. I don't know that unambiguousness would even be all that helpful. I have a feeling that all the same complaints would continue, they'd just route around it, as the old internet adage goes.
- beaner 6y agoHow about [user flagged] and [mod flagged]? Just throwing 'em out there.
- nkurz 6y agoIt wouldn't explain a recent change, but the label "flag" does imply calling something to someone's attention, and that someone would presumably be a moderator. Whether or not not stories are killed immediately by flagging (and it makes sense to me that they are), would it be reasonable for a moderator to eventually review everything that is flagged, or at least everything flagged by more than one person? I don't have a good sense of what the volume would be, but I think it would lead to better results than allowing a tiny number of of users to suppress stories without administrative review.
- dang 6y agoWe do review all of them. But there are so many that I can't say we review them all equally closely. A lot of the time we're tired and just skimming. Vigilant users' contributions are extremely helpful.
- dredmorbius 6y ago"user flagged" and "mod removed" might be clarifying, on stories. For comments that may be overly verbose. The distinction really isn't transparent.