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Re:Reddit nuking accounts of anyone who mentions a new emplo... by jakelazaroff on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:17AM (#26555300)
Flagging is done by users, not moderators: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173836

Frankly, I would flag basically anything by Glenn Greenwald. Even putting aside my personal feelings about him, it's basically guaranteed to result in a carbon copy of the same political flame wars we've all seen 1000 times. Sometimes the issue is just that people are bored of the same discussion over and over again.

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Re:Reddit nuking accounts of anyone who mentions a new emplo... by mdoms on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:45PM (#26557862)
You don't think other people should be able to have a discussion that doesn't personally interest you?
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Re:Reddit nuking accounts of anyone who mentions a new emplo... by dang on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:15PM (#26558261)
That's not the issue. Not everyone is interested in Plan 9 but that doesn't mean they're flagging https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26554539.

The issue is that different community members have differing views about what's on topic here and/or what breaks the site guidelines. That's inevitable and natural.

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Re:Reddit nuking accounts of anyone who mentions a new emplo... by nelsonmandela on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:29AM (#26555445)
Why wouldn't you just hide it or ignore it?
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Re:Reddit nuking accounts of anyone who mentions a new emplo... by jakelazaroff on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:35AM (#26555543)
Because I think having the same (mostly tribal) political discussion ad nauseum harms the community.
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Re:Reddit nuking accounts of anyone who mentions a new emplo... by ddalex on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:30PM (#26559303)
If people had cancelled Greenwald this way years ago perhaps nobody would have learned of Snowden's disclosures.

Who knows what we will never learn because people want to avoid certain type of discussions

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Re:Reddit nuking accounts of anyone who mentions a new emplo... by 0-_-0 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:18PM (#26557484)
More optimistically, it allows the community to blow off steam in threads you don't read
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Re:Reddit nuking accounts of anyone who mentions a new emplo... by dang on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:16PM (#26558267)
Steam is not a good analogy. A better analogy is fire. Steam blows off, fire spreads.
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