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This will be soon [Flagged][Dead] because reasons.

by nabla9 2y ago

mdhb 2y ago
And Dang will be here to say that the system is working exactly as expected and there’s zero reason at all to change any controls. It’s perfectly good and normal to have a system where a tiny handful of people can control what others see with zero reasoning or transparency, we should just assume that everyone is acting in good faith all the time.
- pesus 2y ago
  And it's already disappeared off the front page. Efficient!
deleted 2y ago
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seaal 2y ago
Is there a reliable way to see all the previous topics that have been flagged? If I remember the title there's always algolia but it would be nice to have the all in one location.
- walterbell 2y ago
  Enable "showdead" in your profile.
- hn_acker 2y ago
  What annoys me is that posts that are flagged before they get a certain number of upvotes don't show up in Algolia even if you know the title and URL, and have showdead on. There needs to be a show flagged, not just a show dead.
jameslk 2y ago
[flagged]
nikanj 2y ago
[flagged]
- nathanaldensr 2y ago
  [flagged]
  - timeon 2y ago
    What is the point of these made-up scenarios Nathan?
- computerthings 2y ago
  > If the U.S. Constitution is the core operating system of the U.S. government, the Archivist of the United States and NARA are the maintainers of the system’s foundational codebase of legal and historical documents. to dismiss anything as "trump bad" is projection of your own argumentation style
  - nikanj 2y ago
    I’m sorry your country is fucked, but I don’t live there and I come to HN for tech news, not news about US politics
    - computerthings 2y ago
      I'm not American and other users aren't here to entertain specifically you.
khazhoux 2y ago
[flagged]
- csomar 2y ago
  > If there's gonna be Trump posts on HN, they should at least have some relevance to the usual HN topics. Or you know, maybe just allow people to vote on it? Oh wait...
- Molitor5901 2y ago
  There is an argument to be made. Hckrnews readers skew left in general, IMO, and it is a forum for news that this technology minded group would find interesting. Those on the left in technology loathe Trump so in a way, it's catering to their wants.
wickedsight 2y ago
Aaaaand it's gone.
jrflowers 2y ago
It is interesting that this site uses “avoiding drama” as an excuse to enforce a very strict and ideological political position of cheerleading whoever exercises the most political juice on any given day. It is also funny that when pressed on it dang insists that this practice of explicit unconditional endorsement of the current administration is both unavoidable and emergent, not something intentionally and methodically foisted upon the users here. The censorship is good and necessary, there are some things that folks that come to HN just should not read about or discuss. This line of excuses falls completely apart, immediately, when you consider how trivial it would be for this site —made for and by software engineers— to simply have a subforum where this sort of “flagged” political content gets moved to rather than removed. The choice to memory hole anything that remotely stands the chance of being an interesting discussion that doesn’t cheerlead the current administration is very much intentional.
- SSLy 2y ago
  hckrnews luckily ignores the flaggers and shows this and all related posts
- khazhoux 2y ago
  > when you consider how trivial it would be for this site —made for and by software engineers— to simply have a subforum... That would be quite a cause for celebration. The first-ever subforum here in 17 years! But regardless, we also didn't have random Biden (pro- or anti-) posts the last 4 years, nor Trump before that, nor Obama. FAQ: > What to Submit > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
  - addandsubtract 2y ago
    HN has several "subforums" already; Show, Ask, Jobs.

This will be soon [Flagged][Dead] because reasons.

by nabla9 2y ago

This will be soon [Flagged][Dead] because reasons.

mdhb 2y ago

And Dang will be here to say that the system is working exactly as expected and there’s zero reason at all to change any controls. It’s perfectly good and normal to have a system where a tiny handful of people can control what others see with zero reasoning or transparency, we should just assume that everyone is acting in good faith all the time.

pesus 2y ago
And it's already disappeared off the front page. Efficient!

deleted 2y ago

[deleted]

seaal 2y ago

Is there a reliable way to see all the previous topics that have been flagged? If I remember the title there's always algolia but it would be nice to have the all in one location.

walterbell 2y ago
Enable "showdead" in your profile.
hn_acker 2y ago
What annoys me is that posts that are flagged before they get a certain number of upvotes don't show up in Algolia even if you know the title and URL, and have showdead on. There needs to be a show flagged, not just a show dead.

jameslk 2y ago

[flagged]

nikanj 2y ago

[flagged]

nathanaldensr 2y ago
[flagged]
- timeon 2y ago
  What is the point of these made-up scenarios Nathan?
computerthings 2y ago
> If the U.S. Constitution is the core operating system of the U.S. government, the Archivist of the United States and NARA are the maintainers of the system’s foundational codebase of legal and historical documents. to dismiss anything as "trump bad" is projection of your own argumentation style
- nikanj 2y ago
  I’m sorry your country is fucked, but I don’t live there and I come to HN for tech news, not news about US politics
  - computerthings 2y ago
    I'm not American and other users aren't here to entertain specifically you.

khazhoux 2y ago

[flagged]

csomar 2y ago
> If there's gonna be Trump posts on HN, they should at least have some relevance to the usual HN topics. Or you know, maybe just allow people to vote on it? Oh wait...
Molitor5901 2y ago
There is an argument to be made. Hckrnews readers skew left in general, IMO, and it is a forum for news that this technology minded group would find interesting. Those on the left in technology loathe Trump so in a way, it's catering to their wants.

wickedsight 2y ago

Aaaaand it's gone.

jrflowers 2y ago

It is interesting that this site uses “avoiding drama” as an excuse to enforce a very strict and ideological political position of cheerleading whoever exercises the most political juice on any given day. It is also funny that when pressed on it dang insists that this practice of explicit unconditional endorsement of the current administration is both unavoidable and emergent, not something intentionally and methodically foisted upon the users here. The censorship is good and necessary, there are some things that folks that come to HN just should not read about or discuss. This line of excuses falls completely apart, immediately, when you consider how trivial it would be for this site —made for and by software engineers— to simply have a subforum where this sort of “flagged” political content gets moved to rather than removed. The choice to memory hole anything that remotely stands the chance of being an interesting discussion that doesn’t cheerlead the current administration is very much intentional.

SSLy 2y ago
hckrnews luckily ignores the flaggers and shows this and all related posts
khazhoux 2y ago
> when you consider how trivial it would be for this site —made for and by software engineers— to simply have a subforum... That would be quite a cause for celebration. The first-ever subforum here in 17 years! But regardless, we also didn't have random Biden (pro- or anti-) posts the last 4 years, nor Trump before that, nor Obama. FAQ: > What to Submit > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
- addandsubtract 2y ago
  HN has several "subforums" already; Show, Ask, Jobs.