The submission is going to get censored, even if there is a proportion of people interested in talking about the topic.
It's a shame, but there's no point in talking about it.
It's a shame, but there's no point in talking about it.
1. This does get discussed from time to time. Here is a post from the creator of the site, and a long discussion where members of the site hash things out. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459289
2. Everyone knows that "flags" are more powerful than upvotes, and therefore they only flag things that they really think shouldn't be on this site. Flags are not used as downvotes.
Some users can still see "dead" submissions. Go to your preferences and turn on "showdead" to see auto-killed spam submissions, comments from known trolls, etc.
>Flags are not used as downvotes
I'm not as certain about that.
> The submission is going to get censored, ...
You keep using that word. I do not think
it means what you think it means.
I reasoned about every point we talked about.
As you said, I didn't answer the question, so you don't know how long I've been reading HN.
>I doubt you'll do that
Please! The premise that I don't know how things work seem to be a construction of your desire to argue against me, even if it's not on merit of the argument alone.
* Meta-discussions get flagged by many, many member of the HN community.
* Getting lots of flags tends to get you hell-banned.
* You can complain about how HN works, but it probably won't change.
* Evaluate your time and efforts accordingly.