Comment by card_zero
9 days ago
Is moderation truly accomplished via votes, though, as opposed to flagging?
You say "spam", but unpopular comments are rarely promotional. They lack any one unifying quality. They might be naive, and/or they might be difficult.
Flagging doesn’t report any numbers to clients, so any potential changes to it are out of scope re: my client-accessible integers concerns. There was a big thread about the flagging system in the AI rule-change post a few weeks ago that may be of more interest to you along those lines, though!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341705
I especially appreciated dang’s reply, quoted here out of context as a teaser:
> We're going to add that.