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Re: Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo

#102

Post by threatofrain »

Qub3d wrote: post #77
toomanyrichies wrote: post #49

This shouldn't have been flagged. My understanding is that posts which comment on current events from a tech perspective are 100% within the bounds of acceptable behavior here.

@Dang was this a user or a mod action?

Dang is probably on top of the situation given that another tank man post was marked as dupe, which requires admin powers.

Re: Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo

#103

Post by grzm »

thatsnotmepls wrote: post #101
scop wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This thread is now flagged. What the hell?

What does it mean when a thread is flagged?

> "What does [flagged] mean?"

> "It means that users flagged a post as breaking the guidelines or otherwise not belonging on Hacker News."

> "Moderators sometimes also add [flagged] (though not usually on submissions), and sometimes turn flags off when they are unfair."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Re: Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo

#106

Post by dang »

Qub3d wrote: post #77
toomanyrichies wrote: post #49

This shouldn't have been flagged. My understanding is that posts which comment on current events from a tech perspective are 100% within the bounds of acceptable behavior here.

@Dang was this a user or a mod action?

[flagged] on submissions nearly always means users flagged it.

This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#flag.

Edit: details of what happened are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397230

Re: Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo

#107

Post by dang »

Dig1t wrote: post #60

I have no idea how to get Dang's attention, but can we talk about why this thread is flagged? How is this not blatant censorship? Tons of people are NOT seeing this thread, it was on the front page before it got flagged, obviously the intention of whoever flagged it.

If you were to read the site guidelines, you would have a clear idea of how to get my attention.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo

#108

Post by mvolfik »

kstrauser wrote: post #22

That’s very odd. In DDG, searching for “tank man” with “Safe search: moderate” returns 4 pictures of men in or next to tanks. Setting “Safe search: off” returns 0 pictures, not even the 4 utterly safe images from the “moderate” search.

for me it works such that if I search for text results and switch to images, the 4 are shown. But they disappear afer any refresh of the page, no matter safe search settings

Re: Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo

#109

Post by the_only_law »

maedla wrote: post #5

dumb algorithm can't figure out the context of "Tank man"

I’d expect it to bring up something though, given that search engines can pull a ton of irrelevant content farm crap at the least for some of the most specific searches I’ve done.

Re: Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo

#110

Post by happytoexplain »

swiley wrote: post #104
toomanyrichies wrote: post #49

This shouldn't have been flagged. My understanding is that posts which comment on current events from a tech perspective are 100% within the bounds of acceptable behavior here.

[flagged]

This is an exaggeration.
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