You missed the biggest one,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43819791 (123 comments)
(I've emailed the mods to ask them to merge)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43819791 (123 comments)
(I've emailed the mods to ask them to merge)
A tactic I've seen to "disappear" articles is to flag and then immediatly unflag them.
(For later reference, that link was: https://news.ycombinator.com/active)
I'm similarly familiar enough with the lead HN dev, with whom I have passed a friendly discussion or two of how some site features are implemented, to be quite sure unflagging reverses whatever specific moderation weighting flagging applies.
Do you have any specific knowledge to substantiate the claim you have made here?
Maybe we should remove the "flag" link from the homepage then, and only make it available on the submission itself. Or at least add a second confirmation click to the process.
Here's me explaining this the day after I was outed as a moderator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494621 (March 2014)
Lots more along similar lines: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Back before I joined the area of the industry containing companies anyone ever heard of, I liked to call myself a "computer plumber," and came eventually to enjoy that very much in all its implications. And hey, if you think about it, plumbers collectively really do save more lives in a year than most doctors I think would be too comfortable thinking too much about.
What accomplishments? For one thing you have, if I correctly recall the history of HN's lead moderator role, put up with me for nearly some ten years now! If you think this is some small or mean accomplishment, I think I might still be able to put you in touch with my ex-wife who, if answering the phone this decade, I confide remains still very prepared to disabuse you. Oh, we were neither of us any great prize in those days, but what can you do? In any case, I hate to see you sell yourself so short.