Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Tell HN: HN users arbitrarily flag posts

A list of submissions that I've had flagged in the last few weeks:

1. Link to bitbucket status page, with the title that "bitbucket is down" (https://ift.tt/35Y0234).

2. Link to a super useful guide by moz.com on how to move domains w/o losing SEO (https://ift.tt/1OU16U3).

3. A twitter post in the early days of COVID-19, with perhaps the first confirmed case in Los Angeles: https://twitter.com/iheartWallSt/status/1235595431565856770

4. A great resource on contacting local officials with data-backed suggestions to improve laws related to police brutality (https://ift.tt/3dr8v1A)

What's worse about this: (a) you have no visibility who's flagging, (b) no reason why you're being flagged, (c) no way to appeal/discuss this. Essentially full-on censoring. One person has insane muting power.

We can do better than this, HN community.


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