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Flag it. I did. Past that, if members decide to vote this story up, it is clearly news of interest to them.

• davidw 17y ago
  The problem with that is that it makes anything where you can round up a few votes 'hacker news'. Say, next July, during the Tour de France, I get a few people and vote up cycling articles... does that make them hacker news?
  • raganwald 17y ago
    That depends. If it involves a wily way around the rules limiting bike engineering, for example, it might be HN :-) But I get what you're saying, and that's why we have moderators. Left to its own devices, a crowd is unable to self-moderate and keep something like HN from drifting into popularity cascades. This is especially true when people are given information about what other people think (the score, the position on the home page, comments) before voting themselves.