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pg said " This one seems pretty insightful. Not overwhelmingly so, but it's certainly not a junk article." fair enough. differing perceptions and all that. I

pg said " This one seems pretty insightful. Not overwhelmingly so, but it's certainly not a junk article." fair enough. differing perceptions and all that. I think (note: I think) it was a trashy article, not worth my time I spent in reading it (which is my working definition of "junk") and I don't want to see such articles on the front page so I did my part by (a) flagging it (b) explaining my thought process. It is upto the rest of the HN community to confirm or reject my perception. And I am completely fine with that. I can always start reading from teh second article from the top :-) PS: I noticed that the article disappeared from the front page("Dead" ed) and then came back a few minutes later. How does that happen? Just curious.

falsestprophet 18y ago
Your comment brakes the rules, the article is within their bounds. Of course it is not worth anyone's time to read your bitching about this article's relevance, especially considering someone or another posts your same urgent insight on every tenth article that reaches the front page. I really wish you all would stop.
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- plinkplonk 18y ago
  "Your comment brakes the rules, the article is within their bounds." I assume you meant "breaks". You are completely right. Here is the guideline I violated. "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did. " While I am not sure, if this guideline is a good one, using a forum such as this implies acceptance of the rules. I was ignorant of this guideline, but the fact remains that I have violated this guideline twice. Once by mentioning the inappropriateness of a submission and then my mentioning I flagged it. Apologies to everyone. I'll be more careful in the future.
  - thorax 18y ago
    Would be kind of nice if the "flag" link went to "approved" after a moderator deemed it worthy. That way we wouldn't keep flagging it after we know the mods had already reviewed it for worthiness.
gommm 18y ago
" I noticed that the article disappeared from the front page("Dead" ed) and then came back a few minutes later. How does that happen? Just curious." The article was killed because enough people with high enough karma to flag, flagged it and it probably came back to life because pg judged the article to be interesting
- plinkplonk 18y ago
  @gromm. Thanks for the explanation. I was wondering if the code somehow "self corrects" or it needed explicit human intervention.

falsestprophet 18y ago

Your comment brakes the rules, the article is within their bounds. Of course it is not worth anyone's time to read your bitching about this article's relevance, especially considering someone or another posts your same urgent insight on every tenth article that reaches the front page. I really wish you all would stop.

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plinkplonk 18y ago
"Your comment brakes the rules, the article is within their bounds." I assume you meant "breaks". You are completely right. Here is the guideline I violated. "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did. " While I am not sure, if this guideline is a good one, using a forum such as this implies acceptance of the rules. I was ignorant of this guideline, but the fact remains that I have violated this guideline twice. Once by mentioning the inappropriateness of a submission and then my mentioning I flagged it. Apologies to everyone. I'll be more careful in the future.
- thorax 18y ago
  Would be kind of nice if the "flag" link went to "approved" after a moderator deemed it worthy. That way we wouldn't keep flagging it after we know the mods had already reviewed it for worthiness.

gommm 18y ago

" I noticed that the article disappeared from the front page("Dead" ed) and then came back a few minutes later. How does that happen? Just curious." The article was killed because enough people with high enough karma to flag, flagged it and it probably came back to life because pg judged the article to be interesting

plinkplonk 18y ago
@gromm. Thanks for the explanation. I was wondering if the code somehow "self corrects" or it needed explicit human intervention.