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> Covid, crypto, NFTs, security exploits, Tesla news, privacy, Apple products, scientific papers about health - none of this stuff is very interesting to me >
by greenyoda 5y ago
> Covid, crypto, NFTs, security exploits, Tesla news, privacy, Apple products, scientific papers about health - none of this stuff is very interesting to me
> I flag most of those stories
Please don't flag stories just because you don't find them interesting. Flagging is intended for stories that violate site guidelines (off-topic, spam, uncivil comments, duplicate posts, etc.). A story about privacy or a scientific paper is not likely to be off-topic.
The HN Guidelines say: "If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."[1] The guidelines don't say that you should flag articles that you find uninteresting.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- thrower123 5y ago> off-topic, spam, uncivil comments, duplicate posts, They are all of these things, as I've defined them. I'm going to take what few actions I can take to try to make this site useful to me, and direct it, little as I can, in the direction I'd like to see it go. Largely, these are topics that turn into flaming tire-fires in the comments immediately, with people rehashing the same tired arguments that get thrown out here day after day, year after year. It's tiresome, and I don't want to see it.
- greenyoda 5y ago"Frivolous flagging—e.g. flagging a story that's clearly on-topic by the site guidelines just because one personally dislikes it—eventually gets an account's flagging privileges taken away." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173836