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I intentionally flag posts sometimes. I think a free-form text input for reason would be nice. No one even has to read the reason most of the time. Providing

I intentionally flag posts sometimes. I think a free-form text input for reason would be nice. No one even has to read the reason most of the time. Providing a reason for flagging serves multiple purposes: - makes it so that you don’t accidentally flag something when you don’t mean to - discourages overly aggressive flagging - in some cases the reason for flagging might be more subtle. So casual review of flagged posts by mods might miss the subtle reason it is being flagged by people. If we explicitly state the reason, it can help mods see why a post is being flagged by people in such situations

redbell 3y ago
> discourages overly aggressive flagging I recently posted a tweet from pg [0] and as it starts getting some momentum, suddenly got flagged by someone who believes it is paywalled because Twitter rolled out the must-be-logged-to-view feature. It got unfairly flagged despite I provided the full tweet as a comment. _______________ 0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36563683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36563683
- plorkyeran 3y ago
  It may also have been flagged simply because pg tweeting yet again about Musk is one of the least interesting submissions possible.
- tredre3 3y ago
  > It got unfairly flagged despite I provided the full tweet as a comment. Is it really unfair? Your link isn't accessible to a non-insignificant portion of the HN audience, therefore it seems reasonable to flag it. It isn't reasonable to expect/force people to read comments before flagging content for being inaccessible.
  - halfdan 3y ago
    I think you misread the latter part of the sentence - OP said they provided the raw text in a comment. This is no different than some other paywalled articles posted here where the first comment usually just links to the web archive for a non-paywalled version.

redbell 3y ago

> discourages overly aggressive flagging I recently posted a tweet from pg [0] and as it starts getting some momentum, suddenly got flagged by someone who believes it is paywalled because Twitter rolled out the must-be-logged-to-view feature. It got unfairly flagged despite I provided the full tweet as a comment. _______________ 0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36563683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36563683

plorkyeran 3y ago
It may also have been flagged simply because pg tweeting yet again about Musk is one of the least interesting submissions possible.
tredre3 3y ago
> It got unfairly flagged despite I provided the full tweet as a comment. Is it really unfair? Your link isn't accessible to a non-insignificant portion of the HN audience, therefore it seems reasonable to flag it. It isn't reasonable to expect/force people to read comments before flagging content for being inaccessible.
- halfdan 3y ago
  I think you misread the latter part of the sentence - OP said they provided the raw text in a comment. This is no different than some other paywalled articles posted here where the first comment usually just links to the web archive for a non-paywalled version.