> "Flagging doesn't do anything" It most certainly does. A few days back I watched an article with hundreds of votes drop like a rock as the flags rolled in (

> "Flagging doesn't do anything" It most certainly does. A few days back I watched an article with hundreds of votes drop like a rock as the flags rolled in (it was fairly political, and I suspect it gathered a bunch of flags as soon as the flamewar started.) It went from near the top of the front page to approximately the fourth page in a matter of perhaps ten minutes. One flag won't do much. But if enough other people agree with you that something doesn't belong, it'll disappear. > "change the fundamental focus of this site from technology to animal evolution" One reason you're not getting as much agreement as you might expect: the fundamental focus of this site is not technology. It's anything that gratifies intellectual curiosity. Technology and animal evolution both fall into that category, as do history, chemistry, mathematics, and occasionally even religion (not samey-samey stuff, but genuinely new discoveries or interesting topics -- like when the Vatican decided to create a giant digital archive, or when a guy did a Show HN about software he made for his church.)