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Re:US freezes visas for 75 nations by ethbr1 on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @06:17PM (#46625407)
> This site has always had a bad faith flagging/downvoting issue

The real tragedy is that this is fixable -- look at which accounts regularly flag inappropriately and shadow-ignore their flags going forward.

Re:US freezes visas for 75 nations by Teever on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @08:45PM (#46626842)
Why not just make the upvote, downvote, and flag lists public?
Re:US freezes visas for 75 nations by ethbr1 on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @11:50PM (#46628186)
That'd also be a good idea, but transparency without action doesn't seem like it would fix the non-active front page problem.
Re:US freezes visas for 75 nations by immibis on Thursday January 15, 2026 @08:25AM (#46632150)
HN does this. My account has shafow-ignored flags. This is because I flagged too many things that said Israel did nothing wrong, or that YC had perfect ethics, and dang didn't like that.