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So why not be transparent about those reason? Who does it hurt to have a heavily flagged post display "this post was flagged by 15 people", or to let a post tha
by swombat 13y ago
So why not be transparent about those reason? Who does it hurt to have a heavily flagged post display "this post was flagged by 15 people", or to let a post that's against the guidelines be identified as such?
- aaron695 13y agoI don't think it's necessarily that simple. Many people on HN run on a logic system, many seem to be emotional. So when someone post some cute puppy that has cancer logical people might flag it. Many puppies die of cancer everyday, we don't hate said puppy but we just like to look at the bigger picture ie curing cancer and perhaps not eating animals if we love them so much. But emotive people don't get it and I can see it quickly turning into a why do people on HN hate puppies so much conversation. Plus logical people don't want to look like assholes. Meh, but who knows maybe it'd create constructive conversation.
- btilly 13y agoThere are people whose job is to get crappy content on sources of traffic like HN. The less information you give them, the harder it becomes for them to game the system to fill us with spam.