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Why is this flagged?

• 48864w6ui 3y ago
  Maybe someone on a phone meant to click hide?
• superasn 3y ago
  relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30253799 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30253799
• ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago
  [flagged]
  • orbital-decay 3y ago
    Not sure what is controversial about the Great Oxygenation Event. Some submissions are auto-flagged for any reason like having astroturfing history, some people don't like the source (I flag a lot of The Register articles as it's a low quality tech tabloid prone to posting manipulative flamebait, in my opinion), some people think it's against the HN guidelines or not front-page-worthy for any reason.
  • Paul-Craft 3y ago
    Where do I go to downvote stories?
    • e40 3y ago
      You can’t, gpp is wrong.
    • deeth_starr_v 3y ago
      He’s mistaken. Not all people can down vote. I’m not totally sure of the criteria, I believe it’s old timers or karma points related
      • ffgjgf1 3y ago
        For comments yes, but can anyone actually downvote stories?
        • pvg 3y ago
          No.
      • joecool1029 3y ago
        pretty sure it's only comments you get the ability to downvote once reaching a certain threshold. Stories you can flag or upvote, but I've never seen a downvote for them.
  • saurik 3y ago
    FWIW, looking at my flagged history, I can only presume that in 2012 I thought "flag" meant "mark as important / put it in my favorites" (similar to the little flag icon you could put on email messages back in whatever email client I had used decades earlier).
• deleted 3y ago
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