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Re:Ask HN: Should we eliminate downvoting on HN? by moistly on Thursday December 31, 2020 @02:11PM (#25595993)
IMO only dang & cohort should be able to grey a comment, precisely to signal their quality standard. Flagging is good, and should be a privilege removed from those who abuse it. Voting should not exist, period. Voting killed several online social communities that had previously thrived.
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Re:Ask HN: Should we eliminate downvoting on HN? by jolmg on Thursday December 31, 2020 @02:21PM (#25596098)
Reviewing all comments to see if they meet a quality standard would be an absurd amount of work to ask of a couple of people.
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Re:Ask HN: Should we eliminate downvoting on HN? by moistly on Thursday December 31, 2020 @05:17PM (#25597813)
No one said that. Don’t strawman.
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Re:Ask HN: Should we eliminate downvoting on HN? by jolmg on Friday January 01, 2021 @04:00AM (#25601857)
Didn't say that? Then what did you say? Your suggestion seems only meaningful if most if not all are reviewed. Otherwise it seems pointless, and I think reviewing even 10% would be overburdening the moderators/admins.

Happy New Year's, by the way.

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Re:Ask HN: Should we eliminate downvoting on HN? by moistly on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:41AM (#25787420)
I said flagging is good and greying is good, the former by folk who don’t abuse it, the latter by very few. I imagine the latter would prioritize based on how much flagging any one post receives, among other things. NLP could probably be put to good use, too.

Happy New Year. Helluva start.

I definitely did not say the mods/admins should be reviewing each and every post. That’s absurd.

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