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Suggest HN: Remove 'flag' option from YC comment-less posts
Now that I can flag articles without going into the comment page, I'm much more likely to accidentally click "flag" on the YC posts that disallow comments, because I reflexively click the rightmost link when I want to see comments.
It's a minor issue, but removing the flag option for such posts would resolve the issue.
- chad_oliver 16y agoI agree, as long as you're talking about YCombinator posts, not HN posts in general. I check out the /newest list every time I visit HN, and I flag spam (which is surprisingly common). These are value-less submissions, so they normally don't have any comments. Not having a flag option for these posts would defeat the purpose of flagging.
- jcr 16y agoYou can unflag after you've mistakenly flagged something, so it doesn't matter. More importantly, this is where to put feature requests: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363
- carbocation 16y agoI didn't know about that link; thank you!
- ScottWhigham 16y agoI disagree. I like having it there. I periodically look through new submissions and have to manually open 10-15 tabs just to flag. A nice time saver for those of us who curate a bit from time to time. As jcr said, you can always unflag when you make a mistake.
- carbocation 16y agoIn my post, I was specifically talking about privileged YC posts, not all HN posts in general. I agree that for normal HN posts, the flag feature is useful (and it also is unobtrusive, since the rightmost link is a link to discussion, not a flag link).
- ScottWhigham 16y agoAhhhh, I missed that. Sorry - I read your whole post but I guess I just didn't catch it.