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@dang why is this post allowed to be flagged off its #1 spot? Is that not clearly a misuse of the flagging system, which is not supposed to be just for posts th
by an0malous 1y ago
@dang why is this post allowed to be flagged off its #1 spot? Is that not clearly a misuse of the flagging system, which is not supposed to be just for posts that people don’t like?
From the HN FAQ:
> What does [flagged] mean?
> Users flagged the post as breaking the guidelines or otherwise not belonging on HN.
> Moderators sometimes also add [flagged] (though not usually on submissions), and sometimes turn flags off when they are unfair.
- dang 1y ago(@dang doesn't guarantee that we'll see anything - you need to email hn@ycombinator.com for that) Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case there had been so much coverage of GPT-5 on the frontpage, plus the chart gaffe was being extensively in those threads, that they probably found this post some combination of repetitive and unsubstantive. It ended up spending 14 hours on the frontpage anyhow, which is quite a lot, especially for one of those single-purpose sites that people spin up for joke/drama purposes. Those are a great internet tradition but not always the best fit for HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).