Comment by jeremyjh
1 year ago
The flags on the last item don't seem to be made in good faith. This looks like abuse of the flag system to me. Is there a system for monitoring flag abuse?
1 year ago
The flags on the last item don't seem to be made in good faith. This looks like abuse of the flag system to me. Is there a system for monitoring flag abuse?
By "the last item" you're referring to "Avoid Async Rust at All Cost", right? Personally I don't think that's abuse; I would have flagged that post if I'd seen it. That's despite the fact that I agree with a lot of what's in the post. The title is just too inflammatory. And there are more inflammatory bits in the post, such as saying the feature is "objectively bad", and saying that a community member's post "gracefully omits" some information (where the word "gracefully" sounds like an accusation that they were being disingenuous). Totally unnecessary. Chop off the inflammatory bits and you'd have a perfectly good blog post making an interesting point, but as-is that post was not going to lead to a productive discussion.
Of course, it's only inflammatory because async is a darling to more than half of HN :)
But if we get into that we'll trigger the flame war detection.
I assume you mean this one:
Avoid Async Rust at All Cost - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
[4] You Don't Have to Be a Jerk to Succeed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35734086 - April 2023 (0 comments)
dang, thanks for taking the time for such a thoughtful response. I didn't know about the policy regarding topics that have been on a lot lately, that makes sense. I've not been around as much lately and hadn't noticed that this topic was well-trodden.