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I agree this has recently been heavily abused by certain people who don't want to see articles from a particular topic (usually a controversial one). And I've s

I agree this has recently been heavily abused by certain people who don't want to see articles from a particular topic (usually a controversial one). And I've seen HN comments where someone will say "I don't come to HN to read about XYZ, so I'm flagging all XYZ posts I see." Some of these do get reversed by the moderators (who do a good job all things considered), but by that time they're gone from the home page and fall into oblivion.

defrost 9mo ago
> by that time they're gone from the home page So what, that's just a single curated view of a wealth of submissions and comments. There are many people who rarely look at "the front page" and suffer not from frontophilia. > and fall into oblivion. Hardly. the /newcomments and /active pages clearly show where the actions at, if that's your thing. Many [flagged] and not-the-front-page submissions have huge comment conts and go back and forth for days. You can see an alternative listing at https://hckrnews.com/ https://hckrnews.com/ , you can also subscribe to the RSS feed.