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by credit_guy
1246 days ago
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> select one of a handful of reasons for flagging A version of this idea was discussed when the flagging feature was introduced [1]: A flag is enough. People around here are pretty smart. The reasons why will mostly be obvious.
> if the selected reason doesn't seem justifiable, those people lose flagging privs. It's in place right now, except for the selected reason. If the flagging does not seem justifiable, those people lose flagging rights. It's a tough call on the moderators though.
Is there a way to crowdsource the decision? Without increasing too much the complexity? Quite unlikely.
My take: HN is the best there is. It's not perfect, but few things in life are perfect.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=226400 |
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I don't think that belief worked out there. I browse with showdead turned on. Many, many stories end up dead and it's often very unclear why. For comments you can usually guess but that guess is never more precise than "this upsets some people a lot" which is almost tautological. You can speculate about what exactly upsets them, but it becomes only pop psychology, and anyway, hiding whole discussions because some people didn't like it even if it was polite and intelligent goes against the stated goals of the site. It actually incentivizes people to shoot the messenger.