Re:No One Cares About the Security of Unlocked Android Phones
by tptacek on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:59PM
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If you're across the threshold for flagging, you can flag any story on the site in the sense that a link will appear and change to "unflag" when you click it.
If you expect your flag privileges to mean anything more than that, you should probably avoid using "flag" as a downvote, because your flag privileges can be quietly stripped from your account --- in fact, there's any number of heuristics that can do it by cron job, without the moderators even knowing who you are.
The "flag" feature is there to mark stories as off-topic and wholly inappropriate for HN. Nobody on HN thinks this is off-topic for the site.
If you expect your flag privileges to mean anything more than that, you should probably avoid using "flag" as a downvote, because your flag privileges can be quietly stripped from your account --- in fact, there's any number of heuristics that can do it by cron job, without the moderators even knowing who you are.
The "flag" feature is there to mark stories as off-topic and wholly inappropriate for HN. Nobody on HN thinks this is off-topic for the site.
Just some advice!