The best thing to do right now is politely email hn@ycombinator.com to bring the mistake to their attention. I’ve worked with them in the past, and I’m confident they’ll unflag it.
The best thing to do right now is politely email hn@ycombinator.com to bring the mistake to their attention. I’ve worked with them in the past, and I’m confident they’ll unflag it.
Whether they unflag it, the community still flagged it.
Any forum is only good as the community that posts there.
Most communities tend to only be as good as their worst members.
This is a very interesting community. It could be that some just flag politics, I'm sure there could be analytics on the flags by user to help filter out the hysterical lightweights and the 4chan adjacents. I personally would like to follow the flagged posts first then the rest lol I do understand some posts need to go though and the flagging feature is still probably useful.