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Re:Please Go Away, Tim Berners-Lee by symplee on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @12:03PM (#21649618)
I wonder if making the list of users who flag an article publicly viewable would help.
Re:Please Go Away, Tim Berners-Lee by happytoexplain on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:16PM (#21651631)
I'm not sure what you're saying with this suggestion. If somebody has what they perceive as a minority opinion, they shouldn't feel shamed into not voting in kind. Anonymous voting subverts that awful societal problem.
Re:Please Go Away, Tim Berners-Lee by symplee on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:56PM (#21652055)
Flagging is not a mechanism for people with minority opinions. Rather the opposite. It is used by people in the majority of today's moral climate to stifle the exact minority opinions that should be protected. It creates an anonymous veto power for the status quo.

The other point is whether the flagging is legit, or being influenced by special interests. If the same X number of users were flagging everything related to Y, there is no way to know under the current system.