111–120 of 138 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it possible to ban all users that flagged this post? Or at the very least permanently disable their downvoting and flagging power?
I'd like to hear their explanation first. There might be people who honestly believe that no political content should on HN.
try "tiananmen tank" works on bing
The point is to explain why it does not show up where it obviously should, and even more unbelievably, why no images at all show up for such a generic pair of words.
There should at least be an infinite scroll of other images men and water tanks etc.
This exposes that the cause is not natural or innocent.
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.
They totally are, threads discussing such things make it to the top of the front page _all_ the time. It's very suspect that this thread is flagged.
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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
@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
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very suspicious. I suspect employees are flagging this post, but my suspicions aren’t really founded. Is there a way to unflag?
Normally @dang turns up to clarify and fix things Posts are flagged if a certain number of users flag them, not just mods/admins.
> 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.
Is it therefore the case that the Moderators consider this flagging to be fair?
Bing is usually allowed in China past the Great Firewall so it's not too surprising that it's censoring. I think this is what people were afraid of happening with Googles project to reenter the Chinese search market if some of the censorship rules would leak back into the US by accident.
How can we get DDG removed from https://www.privacytools.io/providers/search-engines/ ?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Normally @dang turns up to clarify and fix things Posts are flagged if a certain number of users flag them, not just mods/admins.
Welp, dang has commented on this post and it's still flagged. Per the guidelines: > 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. Is it therefore the case that the Moderators consider this flagging to be fair?
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
Is that the proper way?