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If I knew why something is [flagged] I could probably learn something from it.

• toomuchtodo 2y ago
  There is no reason for folks to explain why they flag, but consider that if it was flagged but then remains available with the flag indicator (with the flags overridden), someone thought you might find value in it. I’m personally drawn to threads contentious enough to be flagged, but that have been vouched for by folks who have the vouch capability (mods and participants who haven’t had vouch capability suspended). Good signal imho.
  • cdrini 2y ago
    Is there a way to discover flagged posts? How did you find this one? Also what's a "vouch" capability? Edit: answered my own question: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/master/README.md#flaggingvouching https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m... I guess you can't vouch flagged? And it seems like there's a profile setting to show dead items?
    • aoeusnth1 2y ago
      There is https://hckrnews.com https://hckrnews.com, which I find more useful than the basic homepage.
    • toomuchtodo 2y ago
      https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals?tab=readme-ov-file https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals?tab=rea... (Removal tracking) https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ (Title change tracking) Flag and vouch meta: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39921649 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39921649 https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/two-hn-announcements/ https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/two-hn-announcements/ (to my knowledge, once a post has been sufficiently flagged without vouching, it is beyond a user's event horizon and only mods and users who had posted in the thread can see it)
      • cdrini 2y ago
        Wow awesome TIL! Thank you!