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What is the most useful-to-HN-method to remove the derailment attempts? Downvote, flag, move on? I just wish there were more effective tools across the web, (
by bloopernova 2y ago
What is the most useful-to-HN-method to remove the derailment attempts?
Downvote, flag, move on?
I just wish there were more effective tools across the web, (i.e. not just HN) to tackle the people who are trying to cause division by derailing threads with argumentative comments.
- dang 2y agoYup, and in egregious cases, email hn@ycombinator.com. The latter has the downside that it depends on how online we happen to be, but the upside of guaranteed message delivery. If the email is short and includes a link and a brief statement of what's being reported, it's often easy to do something quickly, even if it takes us (er, me) longer to reply.