> It's quite possible that there are just people flagging things without commenting. I do this all the time if the discussion looks particularly stupid, unproductive, bad-tempered, pointless, and so on - or some combination thereof.
Huh? Wait, really? I never ever once considered to flag an article based on the discussion. I've flagged some articles, which I think are bad (as articles).
What's the reasoning behind doing that?
edit: hmph, probably the same reasoning as my reasons to flag, but considering the submission with comments as a whole, instead of the article.
Still, I don't think that some bad comments made by some haters should be enough to remove a good article with several separate good discussions.
edit2: the news guideline[0] is pretty clear about what is a good submission and what is not:
> Hacker News Guidelines
> What to Submit
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
XLibre having haters that flag it, or randomly appear calling the creator jerk, arsehole, nutjob and more should not be connected for it to be hidden--according to the guidelines, that is. The only remaining option is deliberate censorship I believe.
> XLibre having haters that flag it, or randomly appear calling the creator jerk, arsehole, nutjob and more should not be connected for it to be hidden--according to the guidelines, that is. The only remaining option is deliberate censorship I believe.
You can dislike it as much as you like, but it is how HN works, and have worked, for many years, and complaining about it is not going to change that.
Huh? Wait, really? I never ever once considered to flag an article based on the discussion. I've flagged some articles, which I think are bad (as articles).
What's the reasoning behind doing that?
edit: hmph, probably the same reasoning as my reasons to flag, but considering the submission with comments as a whole, instead of the article.
Still, I don't think that some bad comments made by some haters should be enough to remove a good article with several separate good discussions.
edit2: the news guideline[0] is pretty clear about what is a good submission and what is not:
> Hacker News Guidelines
> What to Submit
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
XLibre having haters that flag it, or randomly appear calling the creator jerk, arsehole, nutjob and more should not be connected for it to be hidden--according to the guidelines, that is. The only remaining option is deliberate censorship I believe.
[0] : https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html