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My anecdotal experience is jokes/poorly supported takes get downvotes. If you want to get flagged, the best way to do that is to make an irrefutable strong arg
by notch898a 4y ago
My anecdotal experience is jokes/poorly supported takes get downvotes.
If you want to get flagged, the best way to do that is to make an irrefutable strong argument that ruffles political or economic feathers of a popular ideology on HN. There's nothing that enrages people here more than an unpopular but sound argumen they don't like, so they flag it to make it go away. If they can quickly disprove you or make you to look an idiot, they'll downvote rather than flag so that everyone can see their moral or intellectual superiority in the full thread.
- 3np 4y agoPlease link examples.
- honeybadger1 4y ago[flagged]
- calderknight 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34242491 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34242491
- calderknight 4y agoI found various examples of notch making "ancap" arguments and getting flagged. They're examples of comments getting flagged due to their expression of unpopular viewpoints, although frankly they were lacking in quality argumentation so they're not the greatest examples of his point.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]