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So click the "flag" button on the article. If enough of us flag it, then the article gets killed.
by palish 17y ago
So click the "flag" button on the article. If enough of us flag it, then the article gets killed.
- plinkplonk 17y ago"If enough of us flag it, then the article gets killed." I am sure many people are flagging this article. That said, I'd be very surprised if this story got killed. I think the "get enough flags and the story gets automatically killed" feature is overridden for stories with a large number of upvotes and needs moderator approval. I suspect this is one of those cases where the majority of American HN users can't see why this submission is not significant and worthy of HN attention and the majority of non Americans are wondering why it is. As a thought experiment, if the majority of HN users were, say, Russians, I doubt this story would be on the front page or the top news item. But then the occasional Russian political news would leak through the "intellectually interesting" lens and the non Russians would be complaining!
- palish 17y agoI doubt many people were flagging the story because the "flag" feature is very subtle. Maybe now that someone has mentioned flagging, this story will soon be dead. I guess time will tell.
- icey 17y agoI'm fairly sure that some of these get left alive because people insist on submitting it over and over again if the post gets [dead]ed.
- biohacker42 17y agoI'm not sure it's American vs non-American. As originally pointed out, this will be covered in great detail in the American mainstream media. It was on the radio as I woke up this morning, it was on the TV as I headed out the door. It's in the NYT. It already is and will be everywhere. Thus even for Americans, what's the point of ALSO having it on HN? The discussion? But how can any discussion on this topic be anything other then politics?