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Some public visibility of the number of flags, with tunable viewing parameters, might be interesting. Flagging has its place, and HN isn't Reddit; reactionary
by ISL 13y ago
Some public visibility of the number of flags, with tunable viewing parameters, might be interesting.
Flagging has its place, and HN isn't Reddit; reactionary stories aren't the same as reasoned discussion. Algorithmically preventing activist flags while effectively suppressing true garbage from reaching the front page is hard.
I'd love to be able to tune the decay time constant for articles on HN. All scales, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years would offer new insights.
- sinak 13y agoIt seems particularly valuable for guidelines on when it's appropriate to flag a post to appear before you flag a post, and for a reason to be given for each flag. Abuse of the flagging feature seems to be a big part of the problem here.
- ISL 13y agoAbusing the flag seems to result in losing your ability to flag. I think that problem is addressed silently.
- fusiongyro 13y agoI have tried to be careful to only flag the NSA stories that are overtly and unhelpfully political, or rehash content on other stories, precisely for this reason.
- DanBC 13y agoWhy do you assume that flagging is being abused? That's clearly one viewpoint - rightly upvoted submissions are being wrongly flagged. But some people would say that wrongly upvoted submissions are being rightly flagged. I'd be really interested to see a breakdown by age of account for different viewpoints.