HN Flagging Complaints
Users discuss, question, and complain about posts and comments being flagged on Hacker News, often puzzled by the reasons or deeming it unfair or excessive.
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That post was flagged. Difficult to imagine why.
That post was flagged for some reason.
they flagged our post, any opinions why?
Your comment was flagged, I assume for the ChatGPT dump, but that seemed unreasonable to me so I vouched for it.
Another post flagged for dubious reasons?
Apparently this is post is being heavily flagged. For what reason I cannot fathom.
Interesting that your comment got flagged almost instantaneously
... why did the other comment get flagged?
exactly. even this post is flagged. :)
I wonder why that post got flagged.