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Does not much of the "content moderation" on HN get done via HN users flagging posts?
by xibalba 5y ago
Does not much of the "content moderation" on HN get done via HN users flagging posts?
- whymauri 5y agoYeah, and it can take a surprisingly small amount of flags to take down a post. So it could literally just be a dozen people flagging them, not even in a coordinated matter. Something similar happened on Jan 6 this year with a lot of individual users being like 'No, this isn't related to tech, so we'll flag it." until a couple posts got enough traction to actually stay at the top. BTW, you can 'anti-flag' by vouching a submission. I've done this a few times when HN insta-flags posts about inclusion in tech.