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Re:Ask HN: What causes a top 10 front page post to jump to s... by jqueryin on Thursday July 03, 2014 @07:22PM (#7986477)
Define flagging. I've been a member of HN for almost 5 years with low to medium activity and all I get is upvote/downvote capabilities. As far as I can see, there were minimal downvotes from me watching (or at least equivalent to upvotes), so the flagging seemed to be a group effort near instantaneously.

Things immediately went from good to bad in the matter of seconds, so there's alot of power in whatever ranking is required to "flag".

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Re:Ask HN: What causes a top 10 front page post to jump to s... by dragonwriter on Thursday July 03, 2014 @08:08PM (#7986615)
Comments can be downvoted, with sufficient karma (the down arrow next to the post does that.)

Stories cannot be downvoted (they have only an up arrow for upvotes). They can, however, be flagged (there is a "flag" link to do so between the time and the comment count.) Comments can also be flagged, as well as downvoted.

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Re:Ask HN: What causes a top 10 front page post to jump to s... by krapp on Thursday July 03, 2014 @07:26PM (#7986489)
Flagging is when you click the link that says "flag". Like I just did for this thread.
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Re:Ask HN: What causes a top 10 front page post to jump to s... by jqueryin on Thursday July 03, 2014 @07:35PM (#7986518)
You're funny. Upvote for you.
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