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You have the ability to unflag stories. This is critically important. Please do the right thing here.
by mostlysimilar 2y ago
You have the ability to unflag stories. This is critically important. Please do the right thing here.
- _gnad_ 2y agoYup, every time something important gets gang-flagged he leaves it flagged even though he can unflag. There's zero transparency and a heavy bias in moderation here. I stopped contributing here and moved to lobste.rs
- johnnyanmac 2y agoIn a way, Danf is just following the will of the people. If the people want to gag reflect to "Musk" and "government" and hide the story, what are we to do?
- badmoderation 2y agoWe both know he won't do the right thing...
- comrade_dang 2y agoWe both know he won't
- ebcode 2y agoseconded
- jefurii 2y agoyes
- dang 2y agoMany stories that (correctly) get flagged on HN are critically important, far more important than anything which does appear on the front page. There's a simple reason for this: if importance were the high-order bit, then HN would be a current affairs site. In fact its mandate is something quite different, as everyone here should know—see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and (for endless elaboration on the point) https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20optimiz%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....
- j2kun 2y agoThe problem is that there's no counter-action to a group of dedicated users who want to kill a story killing a story.
- dang 2y agoModerator review is a counter-action, especially when we turn off the flags on a story. The problem is that we don't (and can't) do that often enough to satisfy everyone.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoWe just have to face the facts that this is a tech site thst aggressively rejects politics, no matter how dire. It's the same Apathy that won Trump the election. A problem starred by technocrats won't necessarily have wannabe technocrats solve it anyway. Better off organizing on Reddit. If you want to get around flagging, vote it up anyway. I check top daily/weekly news and lagged news shows up (I'm pretty sure I have showdead on Btw).
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