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A 17% misflag rate simply means that 17% of the articles you flag don't end up getting killed. Which is pretty good: it means your flags are an 83% accurate pr

• xiaoma 17y ago
  I suppose it would be a good strategy for those who want their flags counted to flag newer rather than older articles then. The more hours that have passed, the higher the odds are that those who would flag already have. It would also be a deterrent for those such as myself who flag articles for nauseatingly bad grammar. I don't have that much patience when reading pages with verbless sentences, "there is" vs "there are" mistakes, and that sort of thing. Most 20-somethings do, though. I flagged one just this week after running into a paragraph that started with the following sentence: Anyway. The way I had looked at the issue up until now was that this sort of flagging still had some use. Articles would rarely get killed for terrible grammar alone, but if they were also somewhat inappropriate for another reason, then the grammatical errors could push them over the edge.
• abalashov 17y ago
  That has the unfortunate effect of silencing minority constituencies that may have a substantive and HN spirit-compatible reason for thinking that an article is important to get out there and discuss, but whose thoughts do not mirror the prevailing trend of the groupthink.