Comment by alex1138
5 months ago
Yeah but in practice this isn't actually the case, people flag all the time for people just having a dissenting opinion, fitting none of the categories you mentioned
5 months ago
Yeah but in practice this isn't actually the case, people flag all the time for people just having a dissenting opinion, fitting none of the categories you mentioned
As mentioned, I haven't seen cases of that in the current thread. If there are any, I'd appreciate links. We don't see everything.
Looking at the flagged comments throughout this thread, perhaps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354759 is the closest to being flag-killed for a different opinion.
That one is arguably borderline—on the one hand, it makes large statements about a divisive topic without adding much information, but on the other hand it isn't snarky, name-calling, etc. I've turned off the flags.
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There's one comment literally spreading misinformation and it isn't flagged, but instead got pushback by others, critically pointing the weakness of their arguments.
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