Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to California

Re:Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to... by SilasX on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @08:55PM (#23086853)

Geez. Your comment's killed already? I tend to agree with you FWIW. General-interest(ing) stuff is fine, esp for the "hacker spirit" angle, but I think there's such a thing as too much, and the whole site just degrades into quirky-insight porn -- I wish we'd see less of such stories, but not outright ban them. I also wish we could downvote submissions without outright flagging them (which is for spam/trolling).

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Re:Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to... by throwaway17_17 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:33PM (#23087416)

I really like the phrasing ‘quirky-insight porn’, I think it captures this sort of thing exceptionally well. I have, at times wanted less of said QIP, however, because of my personal interests I would like to never see a JavaScript, webdev, Rust, etc article posted either. However, I still browse, still read the comments, and even sometime read TFA and don’t consider it a waste of time, so all in all I’m pretty okay with the state of things.

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Re:Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to... by jshevek on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @02:44AM (#23088443)

Is flagging of submissions only for spam, trolling, etc?

I'm often tempted to flag submissions for lesser reasons, so I'd like to know.

I'm curious how this fits, also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23087769

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Re:Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to... by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @07:02AM (#23089649)

I’ve always thought of Flag as being for “submissions that are off topic”. Which includes spam but also eg celebrity gossip.

(I wouldn’t consider this submission off topic)

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