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Flagged and dead? Are we to take that as Y-Combinator officially endorsing violent rioting and property destruction?
by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
Flagged and dead? Are we to take that as Y-Combinator officially endorsing violent rioting and property destruction?
- tomhow 1y agoWhat makes you think this? It was flagged by users. No moderators had touched it, or seen it.
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- Tabular-Iceberg 1y agoFlagging is one thing, but I assume that there is a human in the loop before a user is put in the dead state.
- tomhow 1y agoThere isn't. Almost everything you see that's killed has been put into that state without any moderator action. We review the ones we have time to review but that can be hours or days later, and we don't get to them all because there are so many (though users can vouch them or email us to bring anything to our attention to be reviewed). Further, even if we leave something dead, it's no indication of any "agreement" or "endorsement" of anything. We're not here to promote any editorial line. All we care about is whether a comment is within the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- jart 1y agoHow much karma do you need to have before you're trusted to flag and vouch for comments?
- gnabgib 1y agoA trivial amount you've had for ages (31 karma[0] - although it's not public, I'm sure the unofficial guides adjust accordingly) [0]: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggingvouching https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi...
- jart 1y agoI wonder why I've never had that ability then.
- gnabgib 1y agoYou have to click on the time of a comment (eg "2 days ago", "1 hour ago") to see the [flag] link, and you have to have show-dead turned on to see the [vouch] links. They're not super obvious in the UI by default, but you probably have the ability. You'll see a lot more bots/spammers/noise if you have show-dead turned on.
- jart 1y agoWow thanks. I’ve probably spent a thousand hours reading hacker news comments and never noticed.
- mindslight 1y agoI'd say it's the rejection of a tangential political snipe in support of autocratic authoritarianism, in a place where it isn't going to lead to a fleshed-out discussion. Keep turning the screws on people, and some people will turn to property destruction. The individual acts are wrong and misguided. But the overall dynamic is completely understandable, and ignoring it is as disingenuous as "let them eat cake".