Comment by exstudent2
10 years ago
Can you comment on how much influence #hnwatch has on flagging things off the first page?
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23hnwatch&src=typd
For those who don't know, they're a group on Twitter who organize brigades against what they perceive to be tech bro culture on HN.
Hmm, no idea. But we don't see a lot of flag brigading on HN, and there aren't that many posts in that list, so I guess the effect is minimal?
A surprising thing about HN is that the flagging system works remarkably well compared to the voting system. You'd think (well, I'd have thought) that they wouldn't be so different, but they are.
Interesting, thanks for the reply!