Re:Ask HN: Are Hacker News URLs safe to open?
by toomuchtodo on Saturday March 21, 2020 @05:26PM
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This is an HN FAQ worthy comment!
Re:Ask HN: Are Hacker News URLs safe to open?
by DoctorOW on Saturday March 21, 2020 @05:53PM
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Serious question: Where does this information come from? I'm not saying they're wrong but it seems there's no formal documentation on many of the HN rules/policies outside of word of mouth like this.
Re:Ask HN: Are Hacker News URLs safe to open?
by toomuchtodo on Saturday March 21, 2020 @06:02PM
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Observation in the course of forum use. Similar to unwritten social convention or rules.
Re:Ask HN: Are Hacker News URLs safe to open?
by rolph on Saturday March 21, 2020 @06:23PM
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email to one of the mods, there is a lot they will discuss when they have time, that cant be discussed in the open chat.
hit them up with a question or a concern, im sure they would rather answer a well thought out question than have to chase down a bunch of assumption based mistakes.
No.
Well, most of them are, and when one that is unsafe is detected the mods kill it, and when the mods don't see it, the users put a comment and flag it (when it has enough flags, it is killed automatically).
Also, after a few (or even one) problematic submission, the mods may put the site in the autokill list, and ban the user. So most of the time the bad submissions are just [dead].
If you see something very bad, you can email the mods [email protected]
To flag the stories you need 200 karma. Here you get one! Use the flag button wisely when it is available to you.