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Ah, I always figured flagging put it in be a queue for review by a mod. Didn't know it happens automatically.
by beaner 6y ago
Ah, 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.