[ryandrake]

I hope dang and the HN software have tools for detecting this kind of abuse of flagging. I don't care for the constant stream of LLM articles either, but they aren't breaking any site rules. Just move along and read the next article.

[crazygringo]

Seriously, this is complete abuse of the flag tool, end of story.

I do hope megous's flags are ignored by HN and they're just wasting their time.

None of the things described are off-topic for HN. If you don't like them, don't read them. Flagging is not supposed to be for imposing your personal reading preferences on others. Wow.

[megous]

"Abuse". Have you ever looked at what kind of stuff gets [flagged] on this website. It's clearly a [de-facto] tool for selecting what you like, and not for marking abuse. Ton of stuff that's not abusive at all gets flagged by so many people that the submission itself gets killed.

And I'll absolutely continue to use it for that. I like creative and technically investigative stuff, and flagging the rest is a way to steer this website in that direction.

Maybe upvoting would work too, if SN ratio would not be so low. But that's more work, because it can't be combined with hide function, so after upvoting, the noise stays visible.