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It's not Hacker News. It's Musk fans on HN. The article is flagged (anyone can do it) but not dead. My reasonable comment elsewhere in this thread was also flag
by labrador 9mo ago
It's not Hacker News. It's Musk fans on HN. The article is flagged (anyone can do it) but not dead. My reasonable comment elsewhere in this thread was also flagged by Musk fans but it's still alive.
- mdhb 9mo agoThe mods absolutely endorse it though so in that sense it very much is them. They tend to be extremely dishonest and evasive when confronted directly about it but I mean anyone who has an account here can see with their own lying eyes that this happens multiple times a day, every day and it’s simply not plausible that it’s anything else other than something they support.
- immibis 9mo agoThe purpose of a system is what it does. If the system did something different from its purpose, they would change it. I'm sure it's also intentional there's no vouch button for posts. This will change once every high quality post is flagged to death.
- latexr 9mo ago> there's no vouch button for posts. There is. But seems like it’s only for [dead], not [flagged].
- rootusrootus 9mo agoI suspect dead usually means shadow ban, at least for comments, and vouch is a way to selectively show through community support a high value comment from an otherwise abusive user. Where flagged is overt, already applies just to that one comment, and vouching in that case wouldn't really make logical sense. Unless we want people to be able to wage flag wars.
- therobots927 9mo agoMaybe it’s time for a flag strike
- therobots927 9mo agoOh the bots got me. Out of nowhere too. This site is fucking rigged
- Schmerika 9mo agoSad to see you downvoted for telling the simple truth. But posts about the mass flagging also get deleted, so anyone who isn't checking the 'active' page has no idea about it all.
- mdhb 9mo agoThe gap between the rules as they are officially written down and the rules as they exist in practice is so wide that it’s basically unrecognisable when you start putting them side by side. The mods will just gaslight you as well about the entire thing. I know for some unknown reason it’s considered bad form to have anything other than a high opinion of the job they do but I think they do a bad job. I’m not saying it’s not a hard job or anything, I just think they are actively bad at it.
- kccoder 9mo ago> it’s not hacker news… It’s not, but they could fix the issue by raising the flagging threshold for Musk-related posts.
- wltr 9mo agoAs if it’s a non-profit organisation, not even remotely connected to him, Thiel et al.
- raxxorraxor 9mo agoI am no Musk fan but this "outrage" is entirely dishonest and stupid. If you have a problem with the images Grok generates, then don't use it. This is bottom of the barrel journalism and it is no wonder the story is flagged.
- labrador 9mo ago[flagged]
- raxxorraxor 9mo ago[flagged]
- labrador 9mo ago[flagged]
- AlexeyBelov 9mo ago[flagged]
- raxxorraxor 9mo agoWhy should I answer, you made up your judgement from my initial comment and there was no substance in the reply. My mistake was to reply in the first place. For the record, I understood the colloquialism even if English isn't my native tongue.
- LightBug1 9mo ago[flagged]
- owebmaster 9mo agoIt's hackernews because if it was Musk's fans the mods would unflag it