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Are you sure you lost them? Scanning through the posts here, it seems a lot of people just don't know where to look. You have to click "link" on a comment, or r
by jonnathanson 13y ago
Are you sure you lost them? Scanning through the posts here, it seems a lot of people just don't know where to look. You have to click "link" on a comment, or reply to the comment to be taken to the text editor screen. From either of these screens, the "flag" option appears.
Now, whether this is good or bad UX is up to the admins to decide. I assume "flag" is buried a little bit to prevent abuses of it, just as replying to someone's replies to yourself is delayed a little bit to prevent rapidfire back-and-forths.
- waterlesscloud 13y agoI lost my flagging ability long ago. I habitually flagged political stories that others upvoted. Apparently going against the crowd flagged me for flagging. Heh. Not the way I'd design it to work, but then it's not my site.
- acheron 13y agoYeah I've wondered about that. I've flagged some BS political stories too and wondered if I was endangering my flagging privileges by disagreeing. I don't really care, but interesting to know.
- lymie 13y ago████████████████ pagerank ████████████████████████████████ trademarked company secrets of ycombinator ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ███████████ seem to take themselves way too seriously ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ██████████████████████ not only an echo chamber but an elitist ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ██████████ might as well have a payment gateway like the big blue ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ████████████ kind of worse and more sociopathic ██████████████████████████████████████ men seek control ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ████████████ small penis compensation ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ████ wake up sheeple ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ███████████████████████████
- sbierwagen 13y agoMe too. Fun fact: if you downvote too many people, your downvote button is invisibly disabled for a short time.
- avree 13y agoI often wonder how badly my personal data set is skewed due to mis-tapping (or clicking) the downvote arrow when I'm trying to get the upvote one.
- T-hawk 13y agoI have flagging, in the ~1000 karma range, so it still exists. I've hardly ever used it. I'm not sure that flagging is meant for shooting down topic matter you'd rather not see on HN. And that's why the ability is removed from those who overuse it. Flagging is for blatant spam or personal attacks or other abuses, it's not a content-selection mechanism. Upvotes select content.