[lzlarryli]

All my flagged are by mistake. This is a UI issue for mobile. Flag and hide really should not be put next to discuss on the equal footing on the front page (the usage ratio should be more than 10x). I use discuss many times a day but never hide or flag. Maybe it is better to only show these on the discussion page (better for more thoughtful actions too, less incentive to flag without even having a chance of glancing the discussion).

[_fat_santa]

I just checked and every one of mine are by mistake. Small suggestion for @dang and the dev team but you could put the flag behind a `confirm(...)`, it would be an extra click but would prevent posts from being erroneously flagged.

[hinkley]

I have this site set to 125% on tablet, and I still misclick on shit all the fucking time. I only don’t bitch about it because Reddit is even worse.

24 pixels. Thats the minimum affordance suggestion by W3c (and it probably should be 32px IMO) for a click target on mobile if you don’t want to be the asshole. You make the padding clickable if the target is smaller than that.

> Undersized targets (those less than 24 by 24 CSS pixels) are positioned so that if a 24 CSS pixel diameter circle is centered on the bounding box of each, the circles do not intersect another target or the circle for another undersized target;

[savolai]

Also: the meaning of ”flag” isn’t obvious to me as non native (could this be for bookmarking a thread?) so a confirmation dialog explaining what it means could also ve helpful.

[TriangleEdge]

Not important, but to whoever maintains this site, on mobile, on the front page of HN, the text goes right to the edge of the screen if the word break does not occur. A few px of padding would be nice!

[weinzierl]

Same for me. I very rarely flag and I never thought I flagged accidentally but apparently I did in about two thirds of flagged submissions.

I am also never sure if I downvoted by accident or if downvotes are a thing here at all. Sometimes I see up and down arrows, but they are dangerously close on mobile and no matter where I touch they feel like one button anyway. I also could not find a way to see my downvotes, so I am not sure if downvoting is even possible.

EDIT: The up/down arrows work. If I touch the lower half the arrows disappear both and the comment does not appear in my upvoted list. I do get the option to "undown" however (as opposed to the usual "unvote").

My attempts hacking the upvoted comment list URL to find a downvoted list were not successful.

Sorry to parent comment, you were my guinea pig. I restored the upvote, hope the temporary downvote does not hurt.

[rstuart4133]

Same here. I thought I hadn't flagged anything. Whoops. Unflagged now.

[NobodyNada]

Yeah. I had probably around 70 flagged submissions, and maybe 5 or 6 of them were on purpose. I read HN on mobile a lot, and didn't even notice that I accidentally flag things (although I know I accidentally hide things all the time, so it's not a surprise)

[jjcc]

Me too. I unflagged all of them

[instagib]

Same here. Many use it as a mega downvote button to kill stories they don’t like.

Some dupe posts I flagged are missing last time I looked at it. Possibly working as intended. Comments from another section are missing from my account that I had wanted to save criticizing the moderating down-weight system too.

[tim333]

Me too. Not sure how it happened. The most recent is 2021 though.