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I find it concerning that Greenwald's most recent article was flagged. https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-do-big-media-outlets-so-often https://greenwald.sub

I find it concerning that Greenwald's most recent article was flagged. https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-do-big-media-outlets-so-often https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-do-big-media-outlets-so... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26486997 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26486997 Flagged with 8 comments. Either a duplicate or dang has some explaining to do.

jakelazaroff 6y ago
Flagging is done by users, not moderators: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173836 Frankly, I would flag basically anything by Glenn Greenwald. Even putting aside my personal feelings about him, it's basically guaranteed to result in a carbon copy of the same political flame wars we've all seen 1000 times. Sometimes the issue is just that people are bored of the same discussion over and over again.
- nelsonmandela 6y ago
  Why wouldn't you just hide it or ignore it?
  - jakelazaroff 6y ago
    Because I think having the same (mostly tribal) political discussion ad nauseum harms the community.
    - deleted 6y ago
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    - 0-_-0 6y ago
      More optimistically, it allows the community to blow off steam in threads you don't read
      - dang 6y ago
        Steam is not a good analogy. A better analogy is fire. Steam blows off, fire spreads.
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    - ddalex 6y ago
      If people had cancelled Greenwald this way years ago perhaps nobody would have learned of Snowden's disclosures. Who knows what we will never learn because people want to avoid certain type of discussions
- mdoms 6y ago
  You don't think other people should be able to have a discussion that doesn't personally interest you?
  - dang 6y ago
    That's not the issue. Not everyone is interested in Plan 9 but that doesn't mean they're flagging https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26554539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26554539. The issue is that different community members have differing views about what's on topic here and/or what breaks the site guidelines. That's inevitable and natural.
Miner49er 6y ago
HN has really started turning against Greenwald recently. It's possible many people flagged it as soon as they saw it was his article.

jakelazaroff 6y ago

Flagging is done by users, not moderators: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173836 Frankly, I would flag basically anything by Glenn Greenwald. Even putting aside my personal feelings about him, it's basically guaranteed to result in a carbon copy of the same political flame wars we've all seen 1000 times. Sometimes the issue is just that people are bored of the same discussion over and over again.

nelsonmandela 6y ago
Why wouldn't you just hide it or ignore it?
- jakelazaroff 6y ago
  Because I think having the same (mostly tribal) political discussion ad nauseum harms the community.
  - deleted 6y ago
    [deleted]
  - 0-_-0 6y ago
    More optimistically, it allows the community to blow off steam in threads you don't read
    - dang 6y ago
      Steam is not a good analogy. A better analogy is fire. Steam blows off, fire spreads.
      - deleted 6y ago
        [deleted]
  - ddalex 6y ago
    If people had cancelled Greenwald this way years ago perhaps nobody would have learned of Snowden's disclosures. Who knows what we will never learn because people want to avoid certain type of discussions
mdoms 6y ago
You don't think other people should be able to have a discussion that doesn't personally interest you?
- dang 6y ago
  That's not the issue. Not everyone is interested in Plan 9 but that doesn't mean they're flagging https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26554539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26554539. The issue is that different community members have differing views about what's on topic here and/or what breaks the site guidelines. That's inevitable and natural.

Miner49er 6y ago

HN has really started turning against Greenwald recently. It's possible many people flagged it as soon as they saw it was his article.