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Comment by Klwohu | Hacker News Reader

Wow somebody came in and downvoted EVERYBODY in this thread. Five cent army, assemble!

You've seriously broken the HN guidelines. Please read the rules and stick to them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

If you'd like more explanation, there is plenty at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26652363 and the links back from there.

Edit: we had to warn you about this before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26549570). Continuing to break the rules like this will get your account banned. (Btw, if you or anyone think I might be posting this because I'm secretly a communist, foreign agent, or $x-sympathizer, please see step 4 of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637365.)

So, you're also a chinese shill?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Edit: you've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly and badly—badly enough to ban your account. I'm not going to ban your account for this comment, but please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this going forward.

This is not the right attitude. People should be allowed to participate, and they can downvote whenever they see fit.

That's not participation, that's violating community protocols. Downvote is not used to show that you disagree but that the reply is low effort, inflammatory etc.

Flagging is for guideline-breaking content and a sufficient number of flags suppresses visibility except for people who have showdead on.

Whereas upvotes and downvotes control the sort order without silencing anyone, reflecting (albeit noisily) the overall community sentiment. Voting based on agreement is a perfectly valid way to use HN, and it seems to be what the majority is doing. (At least judging from the votes on my own comments, where I can see the count.)

How do you see that

*5 fen army

(To be pedantic, it's actually 5 jiao/mao (hence the phrase "wumao") - 50 fen in total.)

A cent is 1/100th of a dollar and a fen is 1/100th of a yuan?

Yep, and one mao is 10 fen. So 5 mao (wumao) is 50 fen.

first time on HN? lol

> Five cent army, assemble!

Quick link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party

They also flag posts to take down from the first page. Just look how many votes do this post have but barely on the first page, about to fall down.

It's a shame, I feel like it's our duty to boost these things - it's the least we can do.

Maybe the HN team could manually do "flag locks" for certain articles that are being brigaded?

Reddit has a "controversial" indicator on posts and comments that can help users identify that this is happening(heavily downvoted, but also heavily upvoted and interacted with).

This is way beyond being "controversial". First thing probably, HN team can investigate all China related posts and gather users who flagged these posts and take action accordingly.

What if some of those people are on the HN team?

We'll see if they are going to prevent this.

Eventually HN would lose (some of) its appeal. And if it would bug enough people a new forum would see a huge influx of people.

You may be at step 4 of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637365.

If there were a way to transparently share coordinated activity I'd be supportive. But, I've never seen the evidence shared and I trust the reason is because sharing such evidence would lead the actors to change their methods. The best we can do as users is discuss the possibility it may be occurring.

The same thing happened on the other relevant post about an hour ago. Here was my recent comment on that one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26642757

If this is being flagged, it's likely because it's against the submission guidelines. It's hard to see how this gratifies intellectual curiosity, and it's a political topic without an interesting new phenomenon.

Mass incarceration in concentration camps is not a political issue, it's a human rights issue.

@dang, might some intervention be in order?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26643703

you need some amount of points in order to downvote something on this site; only someone who has a stake in this community can yield his influence in order to downvote something here; this means that a lot of people here are subjects to the whims of the CPC.

You've seriously broken the HN guidelines. Please read the rules and stick to them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

If you'd like more explanation, there is plenty at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26652363 and the links back from there.

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