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If flagging is abused to shut down civilly expressed imminent criticism, what is to stop me from just flagging everything I don’t like on HN? Is it not presumed that one is a good faith actor, at least initially? Are not downvotes also something one should be “reasonable” about, aka also requiring trust, community mindedness etc?

Shall HN turn into a subreddit per thread, as crowds defend post “territories”?

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“ Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.” as per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Sometimes the voting is unfair. However it most common that there is a reason for the voting behaviour and it is just that you are not making any effort to understand the reasons why people acting fairly can appear wrong to you. Read, watch, pay attention, and listen when someone spends their time to answer you.

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