Re:Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page
by ihuman on Monday March 13, 2017 @12:36PM
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This might be slightly off-topic, but is flagging supposed to be more like downvoting or reporting a post? The guidelines say it is for when a, "story is spam or off-topic," but that doesn't say what flagging means, just when to use it.
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Re:Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page
by dang on Monday March 13, 2017 @12:42PM
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It's both. It's like a downvote in that it affects rank, and like reporting a post in that we monitor the flagged articles and take action based on flags. Sometimes the action is to turn the flags off.
Re:Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page
by tokenizerrr on Monday March 13, 2017 @12:55PM
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Is there a threshold to the amount of flags you look at? If I am the only person to flag your comment here, would a moderator wind up looking at that flag?