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Looking for flagged discussions on HN? See what's active

34 points by onemoresoop 10mo ago

timpera 10mo ago
Thanks for sharing! That's a pretty cool view.
- dang 10mo ago
  It's linked from https://news.ycombinator.com/lists https://news.ycombinator.com/lists, which is linked from the footer below.
belorn 10mo ago
The active view seems to be a strict activity based feed where the ranking is only based on number of comments and age. No upvotes, flags, anti-flame war detection, spam detection or what have you.
Retr0id 10mo ago
What does "flagged" mean in this context?
- minimaxir 10mo ago
  "flagged" generally means flagged by users, which is an option with enough Karma on Hacker News. Such posts will have a [flagged] tag and will not appear on the front page normally. In this /active page, there are two posts pertaining to politics (without a direct tech angle) as user-flagged, as the Guidelines state that is off-topic.
- kevinh 10mo ago
  People on Hacker News with a high enough score get a "super downvote" that can downrank a story, with enough removing it off the page entirely (flagged). It's why you won't see stories critical of Elon Musk or the current administration last for longer than an hour.
  - dang 10mo ago
    HN has had plenty of large frontpage threads fitting each of those descriptions. What we don't want is too much repetition. Otherwise the small handful of hottest topics on the internet would dominate everything else, and HN isn't that kind of site. Lots of past explanations at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so..., https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20repetition%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so..., many more available on request!
    - kevinh 10mo ago
      It seems like this post got killed as well, but it's the first I'm hearing of the functionality. I wouldn't say I'm a frequent user of the site, but I think I would have noticed if people were posting this link often.
    - relaxing 10mo ago
      “Too much repetition” of subjects you find politically incorrect, you mean.
      - dang 10mo ago
        As I've said in the past*, avoiding repetition is a core principle here and applies to every topic - especially when it's a repetitive+indignant combo. There's no political exemption. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978389 * (edit: to you, as it turns out!)
        relaxing 10mo ago
        And as I’ve said in the past, to you, no one’s buying it. It’s obvious to everyone that the same tech and biz topics can and do appear here ad nauseum. Indignant, though. What a joke.
    - 10mo ago
- yccs27 10mo ago
  Users with enough karma can "flag" posts and comments, which a) calls for moderator attention and b) decreases ranking. It's meant for off-topic/inflammatory/low-quality submissions.
daft_pink 10mo ago
If you read via the RSS feed the flagged discussions and original links often still exist in it. FYI
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RijilV 10mo ago
There's also https://hckrnews.com https://hckrnews.com which is "a chronologic list of items that have made it onto the Hacker News homepage" regardless of the post-made-it-onto-the-homepage flagged status.
razingeden 10mo ago
This aggregator grabs HN submissions and they remain on the landing page even if HN supernukes them with great prejudice (probably because they’re getting the RSS feed as pointed out in another comment) https://brutalist.report/source/hn https://brutalist.report/source/hn Most of the time that’s warranted but I do find some pretty curious stuff in there. It has other uses (it’s how I went back to find/comment on one from yesterday just to be like “hey this things apparently a crypto miner.” Because it had been taken down from the front page in about as much time as it took me to research it… but I wanted to get a comment logged in case they spam that thing again.)

34 points by onemoresoop 10mo ago

timpera 10mo ago

Thanks for sharing! That's a pretty cool view.

dang 10mo ago
It's linked from https://news.ycombinator.com/lists https://news.ycombinator.com/lists, which is linked from the footer below.

belorn 10mo ago

The active view seems to be a strict activity based feed where the ranking is only based on number of comments and age. No upvotes, flags, anti-flame war detection, spam detection or what have you.

Retr0id 10mo ago

What does "flagged" mean in this context?

minimaxir 10mo ago
"flagged" generally means flagged by users, which is an option with enough Karma on Hacker News. Such posts will have a [flagged] tag and will not appear on the front page normally. In this /active page, there are two posts pertaining to politics (without a direct tech angle) as user-flagged, as the Guidelines state that is off-topic.
kevinh 10mo ago
People on Hacker News with a high enough score get a "super downvote" that can downrank a story, with enough removing it off the page entirely (flagged). It's why you won't see stories critical of Elon Musk or the current administration last for longer than an hour.
- dang 10mo ago
  HN has had plenty of large frontpage threads fitting each of those descriptions. What we don't want is too much repetition. Otherwise the small handful of hottest topics on the internet would dominate everything else, and HN isn't that kind of site. Lots of past explanations at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so..., https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20repetition%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so..., many more available on request!
  - kevinh 10mo ago
    It seems like this post got killed as well, but it's the first I'm hearing of the functionality. I wouldn't say I'm a frequent user of the site, but I think I would have noticed if people were posting this link often.
  - relaxing 10mo ago
    “Too much repetition” of subjects you find politically incorrect, you mean.
    - dang 10mo ago
      As I've said in the past*, avoiding repetition is a core principle here and applies to every topic - especially when it's a repetitive+indignant combo. There's no political exemption. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978389 * (edit: to you, as it turns out!)
      - relaxing 10mo ago
        And as I’ve said in the past, to you, no one’s buying it. It’s obvious to everyone that the same tech and biz topics can and do appear here ad nauseum. Indignant, though. What a joke.
  - 10mo ago
yccs27 10mo ago
Users with enough karma can "flag" posts and comments, which a) calls for moderator attention and b) decreases ranking. It's meant for off-topic/inflammatory/low-quality submissions.

daft_pink 10mo ago

If you read via the RSS feed the flagged discussions and original links often still exist in it. FYI

deleted 10mo ago

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RijilV 10mo ago

There's also https://hckrnews.com https://hckrnews.com which is "a chronologic list of items that have made it onto the Hacker News homepage" regardless of the post-made-it-onto-the-homepage flagged status.

razingeden 10mo ago

This aggregator grabs HN submissions and they remain on the landing page even if HN supernukes them with great prejudice (probably because they’re getting the RSS feed as pointed out in another comment) https://brutalist.report/source/hn https://brutalist.report/source/hn Most of the time that’s warranted but I do find some pretty curious stuff in there. It has other uses (it’s how I went back to find/comment on one from yesterday just to be like “hey this things apparently a crypto miner.” Because it had been taken down from the front page in about as much time as it took me to research it… but I wanted to get a comment logged in case they spam that thing again.)