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First principles don't equal speculation.
by sadeshmukh 2y ago
First principles don't equal speculation.
- pvg 2y agoI'm not sure what that means but the important thing is that HN story moderation is not just dang unflagging things.
- sadeshmukh 2y agoThat's just you making it up though. Political-adjacent stories today: https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/03/17/british-columbia-introduces-toll-measure-to-counter-tariffs/ https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/03/17/british-colum... https://www.axios.com/2025/03/20/tesla-musk-lutnick https://www.axios.com/2025/03/20/tesla-musk-lutnick https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/business/tesla-cybertruck-recall/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/business/tesla-cybertruck-rec... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422350 https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/dutch_parliament_us_tech/ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/dutch_parliament_us_t... Those aren't even all of them. their associated HN comment pages are filled with political commentary.
- pvg 2y agoI still don't understand your point, sorry. What is the thing I'm supposed to be making up? You said 'dang just unflags things'. This isn't accurate, that's all.
- sadeshmukh 2y agoHe has said so himself and there are plenty of articles that by your logic would have been flagged. You're the one with the burden of proof of a claim, not me.
- pvg 2y agoI think you must have misunderstood something. You can email hn@ycombinator.com and make the case some article or another does not belong on the front page (not original source, a dupe, linkbait, offtopic, whatever). If you're right, that article will be downranked, sometimes right off the front page. People do this all the time. It's the inverse of emailing to make the case something is misflagged. What is true is that almost all [flagged] and [flagged][dead] is from user flags. But that doesn't mean that the only story moderation by moderators is just unflagging.