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People will flag anything for any reason. Any reference in an article to gender, race or politics, regardless of the technical merits, is guaranteed to get at l
by krapp 2y ago
People will flag anything for any reason. Any reference in an article to gender, race or politics, regardless of the technical merits, is guaranteed to get at least a few flags. Articles will get flagged just because of the title, or the domain, or the grammar and tone of the content, or because the formatting used too much whitespace, or because someone decided a story just isn't "HN worthy."
That said, your link doesn't really lead to a substantive article discussing anything of technical or intellectual interest, which is supposed to be the minimal bar for any political submission (although as many people ignore that as abuse flags.) It's essentially an advertisement, which unless you're a YC partner is a guaranteed flag.
- shrimp_emoji 2y agoThe flag is the turbodowndoot button. When a simple downdoot isn't enough for how offensive a post is, you can bring out the big guns. I rarely do it, but be on notice that I'm not afraid to seriously mess up your karma (or whatever it does) if you cross the line with me, pal.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoAs far as I can tell, flagging does nothing to karma. But only comments can be downvoted. Posts can't. So for a post, flagging is the only option to say "this doesn't belong on HN".