Discussion (600 points, 11 days ago, 424 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136881

Why on earth is that flagged?

Some king with flagging power flagged it

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> gets flagged cause of a few snowflakes got their feelings hurt

correction: some guy got his wallet hurt.

It is clear to me that monied/political interests are on every platform, including this one.

Indeed, flagging should be disabled for any post with more than like 50 upvotes.

Then you'd see the opposite - you'd see brand new attack posts with 51 upvotes and no comments.

Sounds better than flagging a post people are interested in.

I was looking more at quantity of posts, and not as much upvotes.

But nope, my original comment is flagged. Le sigh.

Yes, I agree. Posts with a lot of comments should also not be flagged. Maybe that's an even better metric. I don't know why your comment was flagged, it seemed pretty reasonable to me!

> Posts with a lot of comments should also not be flagged.

Sometimes a lot of comments on a post are a sign that the post was extremely interesting and has generated equally interesting discussion, and sometimes it's entirely the opposite signal; said post was a "trigger" topic generating a pointless flame-war that nobody in their right mind wants to read or participate in. The numbers alone aren't the whole picture, but only a small detail that signals something is happening there. This is one of those situations where LLMs/"AI" (love/hate it) could actually be a huge help, classifying particularly "active" posts into useful "buckets" by type.