Comment by GeoAtreides
1 day ago
Why is this flagged?!
dang, mods, this is getting ridiculous. A couple of people are deciding what the community is discussing. Something needs to change.
1 day ago
Why is this flagged?!
dang, mods, this is getting ridiculous. A couple of people are deciding what the community is discussing. Something needs to change.
> Why is this flagged?!
A quick look through some of the responses here will reveal the reason - for some people, any discussion of an exclusively male problem is perceived as anti-female.
Those people (who have been active in this thread) are probably the ones who have flagged it.
I don't have an answer to that, I just want to highlight how blurred the line is between what the community tolerates and what it doesn't. There is a thread with a similar discussion, but somehow the one that comes from fiction didn't trigger the same reaction as this article, which deals with science: Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46068015
>the community tolerates and what it doesn't.
But it's not the community, is it? It's literally a couple of people that can flag and bury a post. One or two, not more than that needed.
Because HN is about technology, and original link is about social issues. Tech-oriented people are famously bad at dealing with social issues.
downvoting is one thing. flagging is another.
the HN community wants to discuss this issue (37 points / 65 comments). One guy (234000 karma) doesn't.
This is not right and it's making HN a worse place.
> This is not right and it's making HN a worse place.
I think so too, but It's not a strong opinion from me. Some things are offtopic. The problem is that there are no other good discussion places to discuss this. Maybe it's because such topics attract a lot of people with strong opinions who don't engage in good-faith discussion (I'm not talking about you or that one guy).
> One guy (234000 karma) doesn't.
I think one guy flagging is not enough for article to be [Flagged].
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Because it takes like three people to flag a link or comment into the void.