Hacker News is a social echo chamber

Re:Hacker News is a social echo chamber by damoncali on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @12:34PM (#6554331)

I can no longer flag because I flagged every inappropriate political post on the front page for a couple days. (It was a pretty bad stretch). I knew it wouldn't help much but it made me feel better. As a result I was flag-banned.

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Re:Hacker News is a social echo chamber by darkchasma on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @02:11PM (#6555183)

I'm guessing that if you're banned from flagging, then the political posts weren't inappropriate, but your behaviour was.

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Re:Hacker News is a social echo chamber by asdasf on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @03:36PM (#6555783)

Or it is just a crude "this person flagged too often" filter, and he was actually being helpful and was punished for it.

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