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Re:Ask HN: Are Hacker News URLs safe to open? by mtmail on Saturday March 21, 2020 @01:58PM (#22648363)
No, I sometimes, rarely there's even porn, gambling, shady websites selling video streams. We flag them when possible but there's nobody doing it 24/7. Those would be obvious bad submission, much harder to identify those hiding behind URL shorteners or logins (e.g. facebook groups).
Re:Ask HN: Are Hacker News URLs safe to open? by rolph on Saturday March 21, 2020 @02:05PM (#22648415)
i hang around here a lot and see that sort of stuff, it gets flagged, but im only 1 of me. i forget how many flags are needed to kill a submission, i thought it was only 4 flag to kill a green name submission.