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@dang why was this flagged?
by _gtly 5y ago
@dang why was this flagged?
- guscost 5y agoUsers with enough karma can flag things they don’t like.
- oDot 5y agoYes, very unfortunate.
- dang 5y agoThat's an illusion; it only seems that way when you judge by specific prominent cases that you care about. Turning off flagging on HN would have the same effect as turning off the immune system in a human body, only faster.
- oDot 5y agoDidn't mean it wasn't useful, just that it has unfortunate side effects
- cracker-news 5y agoHorseshit and you know it. You must see by now, if you have any decency, that HN is a hellhole of idiots masquerading as experts and that anyone half-way intelligent outside of the software world would never stick around here.
- guscost 5y agoI don’t agree, it’s a necessary evil.
- wrycoder 5y agoThanks to the mods for unflagging this as of 1419 EDT Sat
- dang 5y agoUsers flagged it. That's basically always the reason when you see [flagged] on a submission. (With comments it's a little more ambiguous - moderators will also sometimes put [flagged] on a comment, though still in a tiny minority of cases.) https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#flag https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#flag We sometimes turn off flags, especially when an article seems to contain enough significant new information to support a substantive discussion. I've done that in this case.