80% of /Newest [Flagged][Dead]?

Posted by panny on Saturday November 25, 2023 @03:05AM
from the self-post dept.

Is this due to bots clicking flagged or is HN really this authoritarian now? For instance, https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/CoreutilsTestPeculiarity was flagged dead, but seems like core HN type of material. I can vouch, yeah, but 80% of content needs vouching now? What happened to this website??

Unsurprisingly, I'm flagged just for asking. And no one will vouch. I guess that answers my Ask.

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Re:80% of /Newest [Flagged][Dead]? by ianai on Saturday November 25, 2023 @04:22AM (#38412360)

HN varies widely/wildly by time of day and week.

Good to notice. I just adjust my interaction with it accordingly.

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Re:80% of /Newest [Flagged][Dead]? by r721 on Saturday November 25, 2023 @04:13AM (#38412321)

Yeah, I also noticed this - I check /newest every day and today it looked quite unusual.

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Re:80% of /Newest [Flagged][Dead]? by firebaze on Saturday November 25, 2023 @04:09AM (#38412302)

Doesn't look like having been flagged at the moment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38412049

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Re:80% of /Newest [Flagged][Dead]? by r721 on Saturday November 25, 2023 @04:18AM (#38412338)

Look at 2nd and 3rd page of /newest right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest?next=38412074&n=31

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Re:80% of /Newest [Flagged][Dead]? by firebaze on Saturday November 25, 2023 @04:20AM (#38412350)

Sure, but to be frank, most of it deserves to be flagged (blogspam, tutorials, App-Store promo links and so on).

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Re:80% of /Newest [Flagged][Dead]? by r721 on Saturday November 25, 2023 @04:35AM (#38412409)

I mostly agree (just two posts I upvoted got flagged), but still this is pretty unusual (I think more flags needed for [flagged][dead] than just for [flagged], and nothing on those two pages is marked [flagged] without [dead]).

Maybe some user got "helper mod" status, and a flag power with more weight or something.

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Re:80% of /Newest [Flagged][Dead]? by yorwba on Saturday November 25, 2023 @04:52AM (#38412482)

> more flags needed for [flagged][dead] than just for [flagged]

In my experience flagging stuff, once the flag threshold is reached, it goes straight to [flagged][dead]. If you see something that's [flagged] but not [dead], it got revived somehow.

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Re:80% of /Newest [Flagged][Dead]? by panny on Monday November 27, 2023 @06:12PM (#38439895)

Only because I vouched, then it went up to 78 points.

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Re:80% of /Newest [Flagged][Dead]? by skilled on Saturday November 25, 2023 @03:42AM (#38412198)

You can always email [email protected] and ask.

Why make so many assumptions?

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Re:80% of /Newest [Flagged][Dead]? by jrflowers on Saturday November 25, 2023 @03:55AM (#38412251)

> Why make so many assumptions?

This is a good question. “Is it bots or user behavior, I’m just asking” is rife with assumptions such as

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Re:80% of /Newest [Flagged][Dead]? by paxo on Saturday November 25, 2023 @04:52AM (#38412483)

From what I've seen, anything that is slightly negative about Israel concerning the current conflict is flagged, even if it is tech related.

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Re:80% of /Newest [Flagged][Dead]? by ratg13 on Saturday November 25, 2023 @08:32AM (#38413375)

90% of ‘new’ is just reposts of things that have already been heavily discussed here.

Personally, I am glad to go through the new queue and flag topics that have been beaten to death.

I’m sorry that you feel participating in the curation of this site this makes you oppressed, but you need to learn not to take things so personally, and realize that there may be many reasons users flag posts.

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