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It seems like a pretty lame rug sweep attempt. I understand that the moderation burden of these kind of threads is high and not every moderation action needs to
by luckycones 2y ago
It seems like a pretty lame rug sweep attempt. I understand that the moderation burden of these kind of threads is high and not every moderation action needs to be public. But for something of this significance it is disappointing that there hasn't even been any communication ( that I have seen) and imo is not in the spirit of hackernews.
- pvg 2y agoUsers flag stuff. There are lots of topics that tend not to have sane discussions (or simply don't fit HN) and people regularly flag these without any need for 'lame rug sweep attempts'. But if you're concerned about that you can always email the mods and ask.
- BSDobelix 2y agoIt's not flagged, it got pretty fast to 120 upvotes witch is normally a top page 1 submission. But it was in the lower page 2, 10 minutes later page 4, so yes it is definitely a 'lame rug sweep attempt', all the "Maintainer removed" submissions in fact are suppressed, so i ask why is this? Is it not a: [1] "What to Submit: On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- SSLy 2y agoit is flagged now
- pvg 2y agoIt has [flagged] now which almost always reflects user flagging. People don't agree on what's interesting but many HN users agree flamewars are not interesting.
- BSDobelix 2y agoFlame-war in the comments right? But here the submission is flagged. EDIT: 2 minutes later away from page 1 and completely flagged with removed title (still thinking it's user-side flagging?)
- pvg 2y agoPeople flag things that generate flamewars and this topic has generated a bunch, beside having had some front page time in various guises and extensive 'discussions'. EDIT: 2 minutes later away from page 1 and completely flagged with removed title (still thinking it's user-side flagging?) I'm not sure what that means but things that drop off the fp and gain the [flagged] tag are just about always flagged by users. Flagged submissions lose rank through user flags long before they get tagged [flagged].
- SSLy 2y ago> EDIT: 2 minutes later away from page 1 and completely flagged with removed title (still thinking it's user-side flagging?) yes, that's effect of user flags. Just more of them came.
- luckycones 2y agoIn that case I would classify the flagging automated system as it is implemented as a lame rug sweep. It's a dark pattern. You see it all the time as a way to avoid accountability under the guise of user/community self determination.
- TiredOfLife 2y agoEvery thread about this is filled with Russian apologists.