HN Flagging System
Cluster focuses on Hacker News' flagging mechanism, including how users flag bad comments and submissions, moderator interventions for unfair flags, flagging abuse patterns, and explanations of its effects on visibility and ranking.
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We encourage users to flag comments and submissions that are bad for HN – i.e., that break the guidelines.When we see that a comment or submission has been unfairly flagged, we'll turn off the flags and restore its visibility and rank.When we see users exhibiting a pattern of flagging things due to political disagreement or other reasons that are unaligned with the guidelines, we disable their flagging privileges.
We encourage users to flag comments and submissions that are bad for HN – i.e., that break the guidelines.When we see that a comment or submission has been unfairly flagged, we'll turn off the flags and restore its visibility and rank.When we see users exhibiting a pattern of flagging things due to political disagreement or other reasons that are unaligned with the guidelines, we disable their flagging privileges.
We encourage users to flag comments and submissions that are bad for HN – i.e., that break the guidelines.When we see that a comment or submission has been unfairly flagged, we'll turn off the flags and restore its visibility and rank.When we see users exhibiting a pattern of flagging things due to political disagreement or other reasons that are unaligned with the guidelines, we disable their flagging privileges.
We encourage users to flag comments and submissions that are bad for HN – i.e., that break the guidelines.When we see that a comment or submission has been unfairly flagged, we'll turn off the flags and restore its visibility and rank.When we see users exhibiting a pattern of flagging things due to political disagreement or other reasons that are unaligned with the guidelines, we disable their flagging privileges.
this discussion might provide answers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12099254 (flagging is done by users)
Users flagged it. I didn't even see it!You might want to review the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#flag.
Users flagged it. That's usually what happened.We sometimes turn off flags when an article is able to support a substantive discussion. I don't know if this one can or not but it seems worth a try.
Users can flag posts, which is kind of like a super-downvote. HN also penalizes posts that generate too many comments too fast, which it interprets as controversial.
Do users who abuse the flagging feature get penalized?
Some people flag these posts, and flagging affects HN ranking.