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angryantant | 11 months ago

@dang, hn should seriously consider disabling flagging, the "I'm comfortable with the nazi crowd" is, I'm sure, a minority

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rhdllibc|11 months ago

You may be much too optimistic about the majority of the people who use this forum, or more importantly to its algorithm, perform the majority of engagement.

> lots of people flag stories about the Trump administration. I didn't flag this one .. but I flag most of the other ones.

> I'm going to keep flagging all of them, because these stories are all activating and attract tons of upvotes and comments, filling the front page with repetitive recapitulations of the same tired arguments. It's not what HN is for. -tptacek

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43465123

sershe|11 months ago

I'd rather they ban political posters trying to turn the place into another subreddit dump where they can call everyone they dislike Nazis