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I've flagged this comment because I disagree with it. EDIT: Let me elaborate: This use of flagging, like the suggested flagging of political articles is an abu
by woah 11y ago
I've flagged this comment because I disagree with it.
EDIT: Let me elaborate: This use of flagging, like the suggested flagging of political articles is an abuse of the HN flagging system. If you do not feel that a story is upvote-worthy, don't upvote it. I, and most other users, have never flagged anything. Using flags as some sort of ersatz downvote to enforce your personal preferences is abuse of the system.
- thealistra 11y agoWhat to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- logn 11y agoI also flagged it because it's egregious. Sure, most stories on politics can be off-topic but that doesn't mean you should organize voting rings to flag all political stories like tptacek suggests. Also even if 99% of political stories are off-topic that still leaves some gigantic number on-topic, and some handful of them are part of something more interesting that would gratify one's intellectual curiosity. I think it would be more pragmatic to just submit stories you want to see and regularly read the New page to upvote stories you like.