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While there's no downvoting for submissions, they can be flagged by users with a certain karma level. Flagging acts like a heavily weighted downvote for moving
by waterlesscloud 13y ago
While there's no downvoting for submissions, they can be flagged by users with a certain karma level. Flagging acts like a heavily weighted downvote for moving a story down the list, and at a certain number of flag the story is made [dead] and no longer appears at all to most users.
Of course, flag too many of the wrong stories, like I apparently did, and you lose the ability to flag.
So we get what we get.
- kristopolous 13y agooh I indeed have the flag link. I thought that was only to be used in dire circumstances - like people posting a large stash of say, credit card information or child pornography - not for a story which I thought had bad science (such as this)
- ars 13y agoYou are correct. If you abuse flag for stories you disagree with your flag privileges will be taken away.
- waterlesscloud 13y agoI flagged most non-tech political stories because I think they rarely lead to interesting conversations. Apparently that was "abuse" of flagging. It would have been nice to have had some guidelines. Ah well, we still get plenty of political stories, and they still turn into 99% tribal warfare.