You’re right, I haven’t brushed up on the guidelines and my comment was pithy. I did notice however there are no official guidelines for flagging. I will reach

You’re right, I haven’t brushed up on the guidelines and my comment was pithy. I did notice however there are no official guidelines for flagging. I will reach out to HN to see if they can update this. I did find one relevant comment by dang. > The purpose of flagging is to indicate that a story does not belong on HN. 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. But there's a new 'hide' link for people to click if they'd just like not to see a story. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173836