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Any guesses why this post is flagged and not visible on the HN home page?
by NelsonMinar 5y ago
Any guesses why this post is flagged and not visible on the HN home page?
- NelsonMinar 5y agoIt's now unflagged and back on the front page. Weird.
- acdha 5y agoThis happens for most things which are critical of cryptocurrencies, unproven COVID-19 treatments, etc. There's a group of people who try to flag them off of the homepage but the moderators appear to block that after confirming that the article is of legitimate interest.
- NelsonMinar 5y agoIt's a shame folks flagging things in bad faith have that much power.
- acdha 5y agoYeap – I think it also shows how a lot of our traditional management techniques were more effective when it was more mischief or small-scale campaigns, rather than when a lot of people have an ideological or financial motive to coordinate. The Metafilter approach is expensive to scale, not everyone wants it, and I don't see too many other successes dealing with this.
- loeg 5y agoPlenty of cryptocurrency enthusiasts read HN, and some might flag negative press.
- trompetenaccoun 5y agoI think most actual cryptocurrency enthusiasts dislike Tether.
- johnnyApplePRNG 5y agoMost of the cryptocurrency enthusiasts I have ever met only care about price increases and speculation. Which is why they don't like nasty Tether news getting any views.
- trompetenaccoun 5y agoYes, that's why I put "actual" in there. In the crypto communities I know Tether was heavily criticized pretty much from it's very inception, not just more recently since it's getting bad press in the mainstream. But traders who who're in it for the money do seem to use it. Those people don't care about the tech, they often don't even understand what they're buying. They're speculators.