Comment by mandmandam
5 months ago
> The issues are who is flagging them, why they're flagging them, and what we should do about it. I've been posting about that a great deal.
Are you saying that this is a discussion we could have as a community, without the thread on it getting flagged? Or are we supposed to just listen to what you have to say and leave things there.
The short answer is that meta submissions are nearly always off topic but there's plenty of discussion going on in the comments.
However, this is the sort of question I was talking about. Had you familiarized yourself with the relevant material, your question would have answered itself. For example, here's a recent subthread with plenty of back-and-forth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42993029. No one was "just listening and leaving things there", and I responded 20 times in that thread alone.
I don't expect you (or anyone) to see all of these, but there's a lot of redundancy, so you don't need to see all of them.
> this is the sort of question I was talking about. Had you familiarized yourself with the relevant material, your question would have answered itself.
I wasn't asking what the rules are, but thanks for revealing your condescension.
I was asking if you, Dang, the moderator of this site, would allow such a discussion. And indeed, you answered my question; if indirectly.