Comment by johnb231
4 days ago
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.
4 days ago
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.