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How do you know why anyone (except yourself) flags stuff?
by rascul 2y ago
How do you know why anyone (except yourself) flags stuff?
- tavavex 2y agoI'm not the same person as above, but I feel the same sentiment. There's no hard data, but the pattern of behavior is far too consistent for me to write it off. Plenty of political articles that make it through, but specifically the ones that paint the current US admin as being wrong (even implicitly, by covering their more extreme actions) seem to often accrue a lot of points, shoot up to the front page, and then get flagged - while lots of other political stuff passes through. It also just lines up with what I observed in HN users before that - the average user seems to be far more likely to be a richer, older, American conservative than any random user on the English internet or even other tech spaces.
- wahnfrieden 2y agoYou must use the "vouch" feature if you disagree with flaggers
- relaxing 2y agoAt what level do you gain article vouch privileges?
- nickthegreek 2y agoI think it’s 500 karma and it will only when the article is dead.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y agoYou can only vouch [dead] things. The typical progression for these flagged posts is: in good standing -> flagged to [flagged][dead] -> vouched back into good standing -> flagged to [flagged]. The final state requires moderator intervention to unflag.