Comment by systemvoltage
3 days ago
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”.
3 days ago
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.
You are doing it wrong. That's where you should downvote, not flag.
Frivolous flagging - as you are doing - could eventually get your account privileges removed.
I expressed that poorly. Just 'boring' alone doesn't warrant a flag.
There's a subjective element.
As an example of something I would flag: a one sentence 'hamas supporter!' or 'genocide denier!' accusation in reply to someone's thoughtful comment. If the same sentiment were expressed in a more original way, I might upvote.
Edit: In regard to news stories, sometimes a story breaks and the main and 'new' pages wind up a dozen links to it. At some point, I might flag that. I'm not sure if that's kosher, but there's little purpose in having users wade through identical articles. Maybe @tomhow or @dang can set me straight if they happen to read this.
>but the apparent reason for many, many flags here is that the content is unoriginal.
Unoriginal to who? What's unoriginal to you might be original to someone else. So your justification for flagging only reinforces the groupthink argument even if you don't realize it.
While it's all subjective, other social networks are literally full of memes. Memes are unpopular on HN.
Better to have groupthink that is hostile to groupthink than to have memes.
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It is a vote order forum though. Pretty much any artificial cybernetics will pigeonhole everyone.