HACKER Q&A
📣 cbg0

Is the threshold for flagging submissions on HN too low?


I see highly upvoted stories such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43035977 getting hidden away because they get flagged, even though the article and discussion are quite sensible.

I understand the need to avoid a political flamefest, I do worry it leads to interesting content being essentially censored.

  👤 ChrisArchitect Accepted Answer ✓
What do you mean 'hidden away'? The post was seen by hundreds, thousands maybe. Upvoted a bunch and commented on a bunch before being flagged. Not to mention, it's a dupe/syndicated content from another site, which isn't flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43021873

So it's not nothing. There is some engagement, the discussion maybe then devolved and that's it. Stuff moves fast round here, and there's been a particularly heavy influx of headlines lately, but amidst any influx of attempt to flag things to hell, all is not lost, there's still engagement and sharing.

👤 ddxv
I think that the distribution of who can flag leans towards a specific cohort of tech.