Whichever side you are on this is probably the most important topic discussed in this forum this week.
It is also very interesting to a large number of the audience.
Yet sadly there seems to be a number of people here who think they have a right to overrule everyone who upvote (and no, I'm not talking about the mods but about the flaggers.)
I have to say that I flagged one of the other post because I was tired of the topic and there weren't adding anything new. But this one is outstanding.
Upvoted. Thanks for your honesty. I think this forum could benefit from a larger meta discussion about flagging.
I believe we could have closed this faster and with less problems if we allowed the debate to happen and only flagged comments -on both sides- that broke hn guidelines.
Instead we now have 50 threads and where people are getting increasingly frustrated.
I don't prevent any debating flagging another post saying exactly the same than the last 3 posts (actually I agree with most of the post). You can still comment in the post (I did indeed).
I do think people flagged post because they didn't aline with their opinions, but they are in their right. If this is a community site and people decide to flag something, you should accept it (or leave the community if you don't like it). I also consider those flags under the community guidelines because we already have a couple of post about the topic.
The debate is happening anyway. Don't get frustrated. I am learning a lot.
Probably you are right with the weight of flaggling. Maybe it is worth to contact the admins. But as a person who created an app for a community, this things are very difficult and no matter where do you put the limit some people are not going to like it.
I attributed it to Googlers that had accounts here, and were running a flag-campaign to keep these articles off of HN.
perhaps some of the mods could chime in as to whom was doing the bulk of the flags.
Reasoning: its a political hot-potato, with their DoL lawsuit accused of paying women substantially less for the same job. Last thing they needed was more 300+ HN posts every day for a week. Rage-media has mostly moved on to N Korea, or whatever other special cringe-worthy topic.
