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As a community can we please come to an agreement to not submit and upvote misleading and link-bait headlines? I wish I could downvote every "Your X sucks" headline posted in the last month or so. There is no new content in the entries. If this a community of hackers, then can we not expect every hacker to know and understand the basic tenets of business and entreprenuership? Otherwise let's ask PG to rename this to Dummies Guide To Making Money On The Internet.

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I'm sorry, it's my first post here.

I've edited the headline to "...sucks" due to the fact that I myself as a part of community would be interested in such kind of content.

I can edit the title to match the original if it's really needed.

flag it. Eventually it will die.

I try to flag the worst of the entries (like the big pharma not interested in curing diabetes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1465116 ) but don't use flag as a replacement for downvotes.

I don't fully understand the ramifications of flagging on HN so I'd rather not abuse it. If someone can tell me what the effects of flagging are, then I might use it better. Does each flag of an article show up in a stream for mods? Do x% or x# of flags per article alert a mod? Is there an automatic "hide" or "bury" when a flah threshold is reached? Do flags work just like downvotes? Since I don't know what happens, I use the 'flag' option only when I'm certain its justified.

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