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Very suspicious. I suspect employees are flagging this post, but my suspicions aren’t really founded. Is there a way to unflag?
by xvector 5y ago
Very suspicious. I suspect employees are flagging this post, but my suspicions aren’t really founded. Is there a way to unflag?
- iso1631 5y agoNormally @dang turns up to clarify and fix things Posts are flagged if a certain number of users flag them, not just mods/admins.
- xvector 5y agoIs it possible to ban all users that flagged this post? Or at the very least permanently disable their downvoting and flagging power?
- iso1631 5y agoThere was another submission about tank man, just a CNN article on it. That submission has been marked as a dupe, despite the link not appearing in a recent search. I think users can flag, but not mark as dupe
- dvfjsdhgfv 5y agoI'd like to hear their explanation first. There might be people who honestly believe that no political content should on HN.
- Brian_K_White 5y agoTo allow that rationale, you'd want to look over the commenting & voting history of anyone claiming that. I bet they all turn out to have funny definitions of what counts and what doesn't.
- happytoexplain 5y agoThat's very disproportionate (but I think it's ridiculous that this is flagged).
- jodrellblank 5y agoI didn't flag it, but it's a boring link to an empty search result with no discussion except outrage. I know political topics can be on-topic here, but why is this worthy of a HN submission and not being flagged? What's particularly interesting about it? (And before you respond with the obvious - Microsoft has clearly blocked this, and it's in China's interest for them to do so, yes, but can you explain why you think that is that particularly Hacker Newsworthy? Like, the only thing you've posted is 5x comments of single line outrage - you've called for people to be banned, DDG to be removed from a list, called it suspicious, cast aspersions on HN employees - you don't seem to be trying to start a detailed discussion about anything related - and neither does almost everyone else.)
- scop 5y agoWelp, dang has commented on this post and it's still flagged. Per the guidelines: > It means that users flagged a post as breaking the guidelines or otherwise not belonging on Hacker News. > Moderators sometimes also add [flagged] (though not usually on submissions), and sometimes turn flags off when they are unfair. Is it therefore the case that the Moderators consider this flagging to be fair?
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