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Why is this flagged?! dang, mods, this is getting ridiculous. A couple of people are deciding what the community is discussing. Something needs to change.

yetihehe 11mo ago
Because HN is about technology, and original link is about social issues. Tech-oriented people are famously bad at dealing with social issues.
- GeoAtreides 11mo ago
  downvoting is one thing. flagging is another. the HN community wants to discuss this issue (37 points / 65 comments). One guy (234000 karma) doesn't. This is not right and it's making HN a worse place.
  - yetihehe 11mo ago
    > This is not right and it's making HN a worse place. I think so too, but It's not a strong opinion from me. Some things are offtopic. The problem is that there are no other good discussion places to discuss this. Maybe it's because such topics attract a lot of people with strong opinions who don't engage in good-faith discussion (I'm not talking about you or that one guy). > One guy (234000 karma) doesn't. I think one guy flagging is not enough for article to be [Flagged].
    - GeoAtreides 11mo ago
      One or two people flagging is enough. If I'm mistaken, the mods can clarify how many flags does it take to bury a post, and if there are people with special flagging rights or if karma plays a role in flagging.
      - squigz 11mo ago
        Flagging has a small karma requirement (with no mention of more weighting for more karma) Accounts that inappropriately flag too many posts have their flagging privileges revoked https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173836 I believe you can also email the mods to get a post unflagged if you think it's valid.
Karawebnetwork 11mo ago
I don't have an answer to that, I just want to highlight how blurred the line is between what the community tolerates and what it doesn't. There is a thread with a similar discussion, but somehow the one that comes from fiction didn't trigger the same reaction as this article, which deals with science: Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46068015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46068015
- GeoAtreides 11mo ago
  >the community tolerates and what it doesn't. But it's not the community, is it? It's literally a couple of people that can flag and bury a post. One or two, not more than that needed.
veeti 11mo ago
Because it takes like three people to flag a link or comment into the void.
lelanthran 11mo ago
> Why is this flagged?! A quick look through some of the responses here will reveal the reason - for some people, any discussion of an exclusively male problem is perceived as anti-female. Those people (who have been active in this thread) are probably the ones who have flagged it.

yetihehe 11mo ago

Because HN is about technology, and original link is about social issues. Tech-oriented people are famously bad at dealing with social issues.

GeoAtreides 11mo ago
downvoting is one thing. flagging is another. the HN community wants to discuss this issue (37 points / 65 comments). One guy (234000 karma) doesn't. This is not right and it's making HN a worse place.
- yetihehe 11mo ago
  > This is not right and it's making HN a worse place. I think so too, but It's not a strong opinion from me. Some things are offtopic. The problem is that there are no other good discussion places to discuss this. Maybe it's because such topics attract a lot of people with strong opinions who don't engage in good-faith discussion (I'm not talking about you or that one guy). > One guy (234000 karma) doesn't. I think one guy flagging is not enough for article to be [Flagged].
  - GeoAtreides 11mo ago
    One or two people flagging is enough. If I'm mistaken, the mods can clarify how many flags does it take to bury a post, and if there are people with special flagging rights or if karma plays a role in flagging.
    - squigz 11mo ago
      Flagging has a small karma requirement (with no mention of more weighting for more karma) Accounts that inappropriately flag too many posts have their flagging privileges revoked https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173836 I believe you can also email the mods to get a post unflagged if you think it's valid.

Karawebnetwork 11mo ago

I don't have an answer to that, I just want to highlight how blurred the line is between what the community tolerates and what it doesn't. There is a thread with a similar discussion, but somehow the one that comes from fiction didn't trigger the same reaction as this article, which deals with science: Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46068015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46068015

GeoAtreides 11mo ago
>the community tolerates and what it doesn't. But it's not the community, is it? It's literally a couple of people that can flag and bury a post. One or two, not more than that needed.

veeti 11mo ago

Because it takes like three people to flag a link or comment into the void.

lelanthran 11mo ago

> Why is this flagged?! A quick look through some of the responses here will reveal the reason - for some people, any discussion of an exclusively male problem is perceived as anti-female. Those people (who have been active in this thread) are probably the ones who have flagged it.