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I had no idea that flagging was essentially a down-vote. Thanks.
by impostervt 14y ago
I had no idea that flagging was essentially a down-vote. Thanks.
- nollidge 14y agoIt seems much stronger than one downvote. Personally I reserve its use for blogspam, particularly toxic discussion, or if it's just beating a dead horse.
- trotsky 14y agoIt's worth noting that if you actually use it that way on any kind of a regular basis you'll very quickly have the ability to flag articles removed (I did, and it took less than a month and no more than a couple dozen flags)
- lmm 14y agoThere must be a bit more to it than that; I flag pretty aggressively (though admittedly only articles that I think are inappropriate rather than simply bad) and the link is still there.
- benologist 14y agoI think there's some flagging-ring detection, I heavily flagged a group of spam accounts over and over again until I lost the ability which might look suspicious without examining the targeted accounts. It never comes back either.
- trotsky 14y agothat seems to fit with me as well, i was flagging a spammy subset of articles on a subject that were being relentlessly promoted by a rather small group of people.
- shrikant 14y agoI flagged all the submissions by an obvious spam-bot once, and had my IP banned from accessing HN for a couple of hours, IIRC.