Ask HN: How about no more "I got scammed" submissions?

Re:Ask HN: How about no more "I got scammed" submissions? by Apreche on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @03:32PM (#39293904)

There are a lot of categories of posts on here that I would love to block. I hate the customer service ones also. Especially where people complain about their account being banned and whatnot.

But the effort required to shift the opinion of the entire community to get an entiery category of posts banned is a lot of work, and might even be a waste of time.

Instead, what I do is I only look at this site via RSS. Then my RSS reader I have various rules I've configured to filter out posts. I gotta start working on some rules to filter out the "I got scammed" posts.

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Re:Ask HN: How about no more "I got scammed" submissions? by drewcoo on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @03:39PM (#39293994)

Actually if they could be categorized somehow, we could selectively filter and that would solve a ridiculous number of problems.

Including the folks who complain because conversations they care about get flagged. They could simply be categorized instead of flagged.

It certainly wouldn't need to be a perfect system to be a better one.

I think that will have to happen with a new forum site, though. HN has worn paths in the carpet treading the same path so frequently.

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