>I wish there was a way to just disable the feature so those of us who don't trust it could continue to see and interact with flagged comments.
>I don't know what "dead" comments are
You can enable showdead in your HN settings to see the comments. You won't be able to directly reply to them, but you can vouch for them, which when I do it, generally brings them back to life.
Hopefully that is an overstatement, but, either way, most social media sites are so nasty and braindead that my attitude to HN is conservative: we should err on the side of leaving the site as it is.
No, but comments that go against the grain or against the hivemind are. Downvotes and flagging encourage group think more than they weed out 'bad' comments.
It encourages the 80% into group think. Flagging is a signifier that “you should not dare to think that was a good comment. Move on and don’t think for yourself”.
If I wanted predictable repetitive reddit hysterics, I'd go to reddit. If the benchmarks were cheated we'll know soon enough, which is itself reason to assume they weren't cheated. The rest of it is just tedious whining.
I often don't understand why my comments get flagged. Sometimes it feels random, sometimes I can see that it is because I'm too libertarian or something?
Idk, it feels like people push comments into the 1 dimensional US political dimension (like critical of vaccins = pro-life = climate-change-denier or polar-opposite). Whereas one can be anywhere on a spectrum on any of the axes.
Critical of some research branches? You must be pro-doge then, and you are the "don't look up crowd" and vote maga.
I thought its probably some bot accounts that are flagging anything close to right wing content on here. But maybe its the people who knows but it's funny I kinda feel similar to you.
>I often don't understand why my comments get flagged. Sometimes it feels random, sometimes I can see that is is because I'm too libertarian or something?
Can you link to any pro-libertarian comments of yours that got flagged?
The 5d chess is Elon did the mechahitler thing a day before the announce to make sure that all anti-free speech people would have to deny themselves the use of the most powerful AI. He already won the money game, and now he's doing things purely for his political goals, and the lols as well.
The "mechahitler" was simultaneously criticizing Musk for trying to flood the country with a slave caste of H1B Indians. That's inconsistent with Musk being the one who did it, but entirely consistent with a disgruntled "/pol/ aligned" twitter employee doing it.
>I wish there was a way to just disable the feature so those of us who don't trust it could continue to see and interact with flagged comments.
>I don't know what "dead" comments are
You can enable showdead in your HN settings to see the comments. You won't be able to directly reply to them, but you can vouch for them, which when I do it, generally brings them back to life.
Internet comments are not a scarce resource.
Let's say HN is missing out on 20% of potential comments. We still have too many for any one user to read.
The problem is that a bulk of the interesting conversation to be bad is introduced in that 20%.
Hopefully that is an overstatement, but, either way, most social media sites are so nasty and braindead that my attitude to HN is conservative: we should err on the side of leaving the site as it is.
>Internet comments are not a scarce resource.
No, but comments that go against the grain or against the hivemind are. Downvotes and flagging encourage group think more than they weed out 'bad' comments.
It encourages the 80% into group think. Flagging is a signifier that “you should not dare to think that was a good comment. Move on and don’t think for yourself”.
That may sometimes be the case, but the apparent reason for many, many flags here is that the content is unoriginal.
I've flagged plenty of comments that I agreed with on HN because they were dull and hackneyed.
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It is a vote order forum though. Pretty much any artificial cybernetics will pigeonhole everyone.
If I wanted predictable repetitive reddit hysterics, I'd go to reddit. If the benchmarks were cheated we'll know soon enough, which is itself reason to assume they weren't cheated. The rest of it is just tedious whining.
This would be more convincing if it wasn't the Xbot producing predictable repetitive Reddit hysterics.
I have no idea why anyone would trust a product made by a CEO who forced it to do that.
No user is going to have any idea what their inputs are being used for, and no guarantee the outputs won't change without notice.
Reddit has the same problem, actually. But thank you for your attempt at stimulating insight and contribution to the conversation.
I often don't understand why my comments get flagged. Sometimes it feels random, sometimes I can see that it is because I'm too libertarian or something?
Idk, it feels like people push comments into the 1 dimensional US political dimension (like critical of vaccins = pro-life = climate-change-denier or polar-opposite). Whereas one can be anywhere on a spectrum on any of the axes.
Critical of some research branches? You must be pro-doge then, and you are the "don't look up crowd" and vote maga.
So detrimental to open discussion.
I thought its probably some bot accounts that are flagging anything close to right wing content on here. But maybe its the people who knows but it's funny I kinda feel similar to you.
My comments are "alternative" as far as the mainstream is concerned, however I've not experienced flagging but rather consistent user downvoting.
>I often don't understand why my comments get flagged. Sometimes it feels random, sometimes I can see that is is because I'm too libertarian or something?
Can you link to any pro-libertarian comments of yours that got flagged?
Valid reply! I went through my pages of threads didn't see anything, is there a way to search? It's also submissions btw.
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The 5d chess is Elon did the mechahitler thing a day before the announce to make sure that all anti-free speech people would have to deny themselves the use of the most powerful AI. He already won the money game, and now he's doing things purely for his political goals, and the lols as well.
The "mechahitler" was simultaneously criticizing Musk for trying to flood the country with a slave caste of H1B Indians. That's inconsistent with Musk being the one who did it, but entirely consistent with a disgruntled "/pol/ aligned" twitter employee doing it.