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Genuinely curious, why was this flagged?
by jjulius 6y ago
Genuinely curious, why was this flagged?
- gamblor956 6y agoThere is a large contingent of pro-Tesla readers on HN that cannot abide by any criticism of Tesla. Articles critical of Tesla always get flagged, and most of the time dang unflags them, especially if they're from newspapers like LAT.
- pbreit 6y agoCan they build in a mechanism to mitigate baseless flagging?
- shuntress 6y ago"most of the time dang unflags them" is that mechanism. If I found a reliable way to automate the recognition of bad-faith user interactions I would sell it to google and retire before bringing it to HN. edit: Also, apparently, users can "vouch" for posts which presumably is just the inverse of flagging a post.
- laviamo 6y agoBut what's their point? Are those odd TSLA shareholders?
- marvin 6y agoMost who claim that HN has a rabid and irrational pro-Tesla cult must have missed the last seven years of incredibly critical commentary. I started noticing in 2015. Maybe I'll put together a montage one day. The claims of a pro-Tesla cult are certainly more widespread than uncritical fanboyism.
- dang 6y agoUsers flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but my guess is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25362819 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25362819 if anyone cares.
- driverdan 6y agoFor some reason there's a cult that believes Elon and Tesla can do no wrong.