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only for comments, not stories
Also for submissions (Maybe the karma threshold is different, but i do see it)
[dead]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397440 (has vouch)
[flagged]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27396685 (no vouch)
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I don't doubt posts are flagged by users as opposed to moderation. But at the same time, it also seems like flagging can be too easily abused, and can lead to accusations of censorship and distrust. (Though I've certainly seen it work well in cases, especially for false/defamatory articles.) But it really does seem like we're at the point where longstanding users need to also be able to vouch for flagged stories, or…
"But it really does seem like we're at the point where longstanding users need to also be able to vouch for flagged stories, or something like that." Isn't this already a thing with the "vouch" button on said posts? https://i.imgur.com/Hp9nu58.png
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I don't doubt posts are flagged by users as opposed to moderation. But at the same time, it also seems like flagging can be too easily abused, and can lead to accusations of censorship and distrust. (Though I've certainly seen it work well in cases, especially for false/defamatory articles.) But it really does seem like we're at the point where longstanding users need to also be able to vouch for flagged stories, or…
Another approach is to penalize users (e.g. stop trusting their flags) who flagged a post which then got unflagged by a mod.
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This is gross.
There is nothing gross in my comment, tptacek. Your comment, by contrast, amounts to a slanderous innuendo.
“Gross” is subjective, so that’s a legitimate viewpoint.
Your comment is overtly, expressly, racist though. For those who find racism gross, its also gross. Obviously, YMMV.
> Your comment, by contrast, amounts to a slanderous innuendo.
I don't think you understand either slander or innuendo if you believe that.
This needs to be upvoted to the top so that we get some answers as to why this well-known history is not searchable via such a major tech company’s search functionality. It’s the top result via Google, why is Bing so bad at this?
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"Political" or "controversial" content is always^H^H^H^H sometimes punished by HN (sorry, dang). While I think this is a highly questionable policy which is itself political in nature (reinforcing as it does the status quo), it need not be specific to China. A statement would certainly be nice, however.
I did notice it the past that HN articles critical of China behaved in a strange way. In the past all the comments in the comment section were downvoted, sometimes you could see dozens of comments greyed out, every single one of them. (Probably because it's not possible to downvote an article). Now the articles are flagged, probably whoever was organising this realised that flagging an article is effectively downvoti…
I think there are probably quite a few users who behave similarly. But there's no need for us to form an organization, because each of us can just use the user-moderation tools as intended, without having to coordinate our actions with each other.
@dang, I think we need an explanation for why Tank Man-related content on Hacker News has been disappearing all day. I usually trust HN to be a bastion of free speech, and if there isn't some kind of proportionate response here, I don't believe myself or many others here will be able to see it that way going forward. EDIT: Thank you for your response, dang. Hacker News is a special place, which is why we have respond…
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I don't doubt posts are flagged by users as opposed to moderation. But at the same time, it also seems like flagging can be too easily abused, and can lead to accusations of censorship and distrust. (Though I've certainly seen it work well in cases, especially for false/defamatory articles.) But it really does seem like we're at the point where longstanding users need to also be able to vouch for flagged stories, or…
Another approach is to penalize users (e.g. stop trusting their flags) who flagged a post which then got unflagged by a mod.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210604192821/https://www.bing....
https://web.archive.org/web/20210604180506/https://images.se...
https://web.archive.org/web/20210604194355/https://www.ecosi...
https://web.archive.org/web/20210604194336/https://search.ao...
Some people probably think "nobody uses Bing", but Bing powers a lot of different search engines (Yahoo, Ecosia, AOL, DuckDuckGo, and more). It's the default search engine on millions of devices (Windows, and even if you change it, Windows search still uses it; Xbox uses it as well.)