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Comment by jameslk

17 days ago

Hide doesn't flag content that should be flagged

So you want to hide it for everyone.

  • Flagging is for flagging content that doesn't meet HN's guidelines:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#flag

    Specifically:

    > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

    • > unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

      Like the death of American democracy, the death throes of the global status quo? The normalisation of facism?

      I've been here for a decade and a half and I've never once felt the need to discuss politics here before. This situation is very different and is sure to have a direct effect on anything else we may want to discuss in the future. There's also often a technological aspect where I am dying to hear expert opinion and this is where the experts are.

      Again, this situation is very new and it requires a response. Hundreds of people are upvoting these articles every day and every day they're being told to go elsewhere. It's a very disconcerting feeling and I don't understand why "hide" isn't enough.

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