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My 9-10 pages of flagged comments seem mostly good, almost all of them are dead and things I think I intentionally flagged. My 3 pages of flagged submissions s

My 9-10 pages of flagged comments seem mostly good, almost all of them are dead and things I think I intentionally flagged. My 3 pages of flagged submissions seems a bit more random. Perhaps I don't remember the reason just skimming through, but some of them are certainly accidental.

sshine 3y ago
I had 4 out of 4 accidental flagged submissions.
kelnos 3y ago
My list of flagged submissions is more or less like yours. I think the reason is that I flag things that I don't want to see on HN (not just that I don't care about them, but that I think some topics or specific articles are harmful/toxic to a community), which is often contrary to what many other HN readers think. There's no downvote button on submissions, so there's no other way for me to give that signal. For comments, I usually only flag when people are egregiously violating site guidelines or are just being dicks in general, and I think most other potential flaggers often agree with my flags in those cases, and pile on. If I just think that a comment doesn't add anything substantive, I'll merely downvote. I'll also downvote if I strongly disagree with someone's position, after reading an older post on HN from pg saying that's an accepted use for downvotes[0]. I'm still somewhat torn on this, as I'm not sure a nearly 15-year-old post on policy (from someone who seems not to be much involved with HN these days) should still be considered authoritative, as community norms change over time. I also don't love that using downvotes to express disagreement also has the effect of hiding contrary opinions, which can often hold a lot of value. So I try to reserve my disagreement downvotes for cases where I believe I have evidence the poster is objectively wrong about what they're saying. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658691 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658691
maxerickson 3y ago
One thing that is hard with submissions is duplicates. Reasonable to flag, hard to identify later.

sshine 3y ago

I had 4 out of 4 accidental flagged submissions.

kelnos 3y ago

My list of flagged submissions is more or less like yours. I think the reason is that I flag things that I don't want to see on HN (not just that I don't care about them, but that I think some topics or specific articles are harmful/toxic to a community), which is often contrary to what many other HN readers think. There's no downvote button on submissions, so there's no other way for me to give that signal. For comments, I usually only flag when people are egregiously violating site guidelines or are just being dicks in general, and I think most other potential flaggers often agree with my flags in those cases, and pile on. If I just think that a comment doesn't add anything substantive, I'll merely downvote. I'll also downvote if I strongly disagree with someone's position, after reading an older post on HN from pg saying that's an accepted use for downvotes[0]. I'm still somewhat torn on this, as I'm not sure a nearly 15-year-old post on policy (from someone who seems not to be much involved with HN these days) should still be considered authoritative, as community norms change over time. I also don't love that using downvotes to express disagreement also has the effect of hiding contrary opinions, which can often hold a lot of value. So I try to reserve my disagreement downvotes for cases where I believe I have evidence the poster is objectively wrong about what they're saying. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658691 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658691

maxerickson 3y ago

One thing that is hard with submissions is duplicates. Reasonable to flag, hard to identify later.