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To the responses: the whole point of hacker news is to have a culture where upvoting is the only form of vote. If you want something to sink to the bottom the only thing you are supposed to do is not vote for it. Flagging is reserved for spam or other stuff that violates HN policies.

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If that were true, then flagging would not sink things to the bottom. I click the buttons that do what I want, not ones that are supposed to do what I want.

This is why we can't have nice things.

No, the refusal to make the effort to design well allowing for this is why we don't have nice things.

I'm pretty sure pg doesn't post the criteria being marked "dead", but I thought I'd heard one time that it took ~10 flags for it to happen.

After my original post to the petition was killed, I thought I had done something wrong linking directly to the petition...as if that was some sort of spam (e.g. linking to an article about a product vs. linking to the actual product page seems to be the norm here as most direct-to-product links come off as spammy).

I'm assuming good faith about the whole thing, but think that it's an interesting gray area ripe for community discussion.

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