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Does anyone understand the mass flagging and downvotes going on in this comment section? I'm very confused as I've never seen anything like it.

maze-le 3y ago
Just the usual political flamewar that happens here from time to time, not sure why it escalates on some threads and not on others though.
- deleted 3y ago
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- Andrex 3y ago
  Probably the posters involved. Blessing and a (minor) curse that HN doesn't use avatars. Harder to avoid commenters you know you don't like.
chippy 3y ago
I'm guessing that there is some automatic system that works on certain words in comments. Flame detection has been mentioned before. Probably in combination with account age or karma. I also imagine that users vouching for these might offset the behaviour.
- MrStonedOne 3y ago
  If the number of comments in a post or subthread exceeds the upvotes, this leads to the flame detector activating. But also some accounts are just banned. Banned accounts can still comment, but they start dead and have to be vouched first before showing to anybody who didn't enable showdead in their profile.
- 93po 3y ago
  I have noticed a trend that some of my friends accounts get rate limited extremely easily while others don't. Not sure what's happening there, I assume there's a flag set by a mod or its otherwise calculated by karma total number of times the account has been flagged. it doesn't seem to correlate with recent controversial posting
RobotToaster 3y ago
If you click the timestamp there should be a "vouch" button for comments to restore them. It's quite annoying, possibly NAFO or similar.
systemvoltage 3y ago
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- nebalee 3y ago
  > Germany is blocking news from French riots. What are you on about? The riots in France are on pretty much every news site in Germany.
  - systemvoltage 3y ago
    [flagged]
  - systemvoltage 3y ago
    More here: https://www.reddit.com/r/2westerneurope4u/comments/14nx7v5/the_censorship_on_big_subs_about_the_events_in/ https://www.reddit.com/r/2westerneurope4u/comments/14nx7v5/t...
    - nebalee 3y ago
      There is one single post about German media in that thread and it states the same that I did.

maze-le 3y ago

Just the usual political flamewar that happens here from time to time, not sure why it escalates on some threads and not on others though.

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Andrex 3y ago
Probably the posters involved. Blessing and a (minor) curse that HN doesn't use avatars. Harder to avoid commenters you know you don't like.

chippy 3y ago

I'm guessing that there is some automatic system that works on certain words in comments. Flame detection has been mentioned before. Probably in combination with account age or karma. I also imagine that users vouching for these might offset the behaviour.

MrStonedOne 3y ago
If the number of comments in a post or subthread exceeds the upvotes, this leads to the flame detector activating. But also some accounts are just banned. Banned accounts can still comment, but they start dead and have to be vouched first before showing to anybody who didn't enable showdead in their profile.
93po 3y ago
I have noticed a trend that some of my friends accounts get rate limited extremely easily while others don't. Not sure what's happening there, I assume there's a flag set by a mod or its otherwise calculated by karma total number of times the account has been flagged. it doesn't seem to correlate with recent controversial posting

RobotToaster 3y ago

If you click the timestamp there should be a "vouch" button for comments to restore them. It's quite annoying, possibly NAFO or similar.

systemvoltage 3y ago

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nebalee 3y ago
> Germany is blocking news from French riots. What are you on about? The riots in France are on pretty much every news site in Germany.
- systemvoltage 3y ago
  [flagged]
- systemvoltage 3y ago
  More here: https://www.reddit.com/r/2westerneurope4u/comments/14nx7v5/the_censorship_on_big_subs_about_the_events_in/ https://www.reddit.com/r/2westerneurope4u/comments/14nx7v5/t...
  - nebalee 3y ago
    There is one single post about German media in that thread and it states the same that I did.