Why is this flagged?!
dang, mods, this is getting ridiculous. A couple of people are deciding what the community is discussing. Something needs to change.
dang, mods, this is getting ridiculous. A couple of people are deciding what the community is discussing. Something needs to change.
But it's not the community, is it? It's literally a couple of people that can flag and bury a post. One or two, not more than that needed.
the HN community wants to discuss this issue (37 points / 65 comments). One guy (234000 karma) doesn't.
This is not right and it's making HN a worse place.
I think so too, but It's not a strong opinion from me. Some things are offtopic. The problem is that there are no other good discussion places to discuss this. Maybe it's because such topics attract a lot of people with strong opinions who don't engage in good-faith discussion (I'm not talking about you or that one guy).
> One guy (234000 karma) doesn't.
I think one guy flagging is not enough for article to be [Flagged].
If I'm mistaken, the mods can clarify how many flags does it take to bury a post, and if there are people with special flagging rights or if karma plays a role in flagging.
Accounts that inappropriately flag too many posts have their flagging privileges revoked
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173836
I believe you can also email the mods to get a post unflagged if you think it's valid.
A quick look through some of the responses here will reveal the reason - for some people, any discussion of an exclusively male problem is perceived as anti-female.
Those people (who have been active in this thread) are probably the ones who have flagged it.