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Not familiar with how flagging works. Why would it be flagged?
by nadir_ishiguro 1y ago
Not familiar with how flagging works. Why would it be flagged?
- junek 1y ago[flagged]
- teddyh 1y agoOr, just maybe, HN is full of people who don’t come to HN to read about nazis.
- tough 1y agowhen topics are too political usually flame wars abound and moderators can choose to flag/derank a submission to avoid the comments section going wild or just close comments altogether in extreme cases all i can find on doing research is if a thread has more comments than upvotes that might be what flags it as flamewar candidate (but seems mostly is manually reviewed by moderators, not fully-automated) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39790881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39790881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231821 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231821
- ks2048 1y agoIs there a simple rule about how many "flags" vs "upvotes" lead to an article not appearing on the front page?
- jillyboel 1y ago[flagged]
- karmakurtisaani 1y agoYou get down votes, but this is exactly it.
- jillyboel 1y agoYeah, it's telling how this comment went from +2 to -2 to flagged to revived