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> Five cent army, assemble! Quick link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party They also flag posts to take
by tammerk 6y ago
> Five cent army, assemble!
Quick link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
They also flag posts to take down from the first page. Just look how many votes do this post have but barely on the first page, about to fall down.
- meibo 6y agoIt's a shame, I feel like it's our duty to boost these things - it's the least we can do. Maybe the HN team could manually do "flag locks" for certain articles that are being brigaded? Reddit has a "controversial" indicator on posts and comments that can help users identify that this is happening(heavily downvoted, but also heavily upvoted and interacted with).
- tammerk 6y agoThis is way beyond being "controversial". First thing probably, HN team can investigate all China related posts and gather users who flagged these posts and take action accordingly.
- wait_a_minute 6y agoWhat if some of those people are on the HN team?
- tammerk 6y agoWe'll see if they are going to prevent this.
- pas 6y agoEventually HN would lose (some of) its appeal. And if it would bug enough people a new forum would see a huge influx of people.
- dang 6y agoYou may be at step 4 of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637365.
- unityByFreedom 6y agoIf there were a way to transparently share coordinated activity I'd be supportive. But, I've never seen the evidence shared and I trust the reason is because sharing such evidence would lead the actors to change their methods. The best we can do as users is discuss the possibility it may be occurring.
- caminocorner 6y agoThe same thing happened on the other relevant post about an hour ago. Here was my recent comment on that one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26642757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26642757
- boomboomsubban 6y agoIf this is being flagged, it's likely because it's against the submission guidelines. It's hard to see how this gratifies intellectual curiosity, and it's a political topic without an interesting new phenomenon.
- stadium 6y agoMass incarceration in concentration camps is not a political issue, it's a human rights issue.
- tammerk 6y agoYour comment history is all about political posts. Did you flag these posts while writing comments under them?
- boomboomsubban 6y agoI don't recall ever flagging a submission, if I have it's infrequent. That personal attack aside, political submissions don't have a blanket ban, but it's reasonable to see why this one would get flagged without blaming paid state actors.
- brundolf 6y ago@dang, might some intervention be in order?
- chillee 6y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26643703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26643703
- MichaelMoser123 6y agoyou need some amount of points in order to downvote something on this site; only someone who has a stake in this community can yield his influence in order to downvote something here; this means that a lot of people here are subjects to the whims of the CPC.
- dang 6y agoYou've seriously broken the HN guidelines. Please read the rules and stick to them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If you'd like more explanation, there is plenty at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26652363 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26652363 and the links back from there.