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Re:How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controvers... by bigiain on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @07:32PM (#6805371)
And, FWIW, you don't seem to automatically get it back (at least not within six or eight months - I had this one angry, ill-considered day once…)
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Re:How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controvers... by seiji on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @07:48PM (#6805445)
I've been flag free for over two (three?) years now. No big loss.
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Re:How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controvers... by bigiain on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @09:23PM (#6805832)
Yeah, I figure I'd probably get it back pretty easily if I asked Paul and apologised - but I really don't miss the "opportunity to be negative". So long as he's happy that there are sufficient people down-flagging the stuff that requires down-flagging, the site will happily exist without _my_ opinions of what's worthwhile and what isn't.
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