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Ask HN: What's with the Flagging of Upvoted Comments?

throwaway118899 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 19:42:14 +0000

I’ve noticed a concerning effectiveness to brigading/flag spamming that will get comments taken down. My reply to a comment:

‘’’ > My old manager put it best: No politics and religion in the workplace

I wish all the diversity, equity, and inclusion teams at work who host women only events and talk about gender pay gaps over lunch would be considered politics and banned. But for some reason those teams have flipped a middle finger to the no politics rule and have been rewarded for it. ‘’’

Flagged with +3 upvotes.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39645372

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by throwaway118899 in "Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account"

throwaway118899 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 19:32:34 +0000

Anti competitive behavior? Over an App Store that’s only important because of the success of their phones. Phones that people don’t need to buy because there are alternatives? Miss me with actual harms being done.

Edit: Of course your anti-Apple bias shows and you downvote anything going against the circle jerk

New comment by throwaway118899 in "U.S. blocks sale of AMD's China chip"

throwaway118899 — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 10:32:42 +0000

We knew it wasn’t going to end well when America helped the world rebuild itself instead of taking it over after WW2 when we had nukes and nobody else did.

New comment by throwaway118899 in "AWS acquires Talen's 960MW nuclear data center campus in Pennsylvania"

throwaway118899 — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 10:26:22 +0000

Every article I’ve seen posted to HN about this topic has some cute or clickbait title to overhype the nuclear aspect.

New comment by throwaway118899 in "Amazon goes nuclear, acquires Cumulus Data's atomic datacenters for $650M"

throwaway118899 — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 10:20:58 +0000

AI is going to replace journalism because it won’t feel the need to make cutesy play on words in their clickbait headlines.

New comment by throwaway118899 in "New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip"

throwaway118899 — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 10:18:55 +0000

The key is to treat Windows users like children and lock it down with an administrator password. You’d be amazed how well Windows holds up over the years if you just prevent them from installing whatever random bullshit they find.

New comment by throwaway118899 in "Leftwing group claim responsibility for Tesla factory arson attack in Berlin"

throwaway118899 — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 10:03:28 +0000

Overly pedantic comment. Who cares what the definition of hippy is

New comment by throwaway118899 in "Leftwing group claim responsibility for Tesla factory arson attack in Berlin"

throwaway118899 — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 10:01:44 +0000

Honestly that’s what doing business in the EU is like right now. Their entire bureaucracy seems to have become an operation for enacting laws that enable them to sue foreign businesses and line the pockets of their politicians.

New comment by throwaway118899 in "Russians Keep Turning Up Dead All over the World"

throwaway118899 — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 10:55:46 +0000

Border control catching every hitman with the backing of an entire country… You need to stop watching CSI shows buddy.

New comment by throwaway118899 in "Russians Keep Turning Up Dead All over the World"

throwaway118899 — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 10:49:22 +0000

Who are these people, and why should I, part of the west, give a single shit about Russians running from the problems of their own country?

New comment by throwaway118899 in "US prescription market hamstrung for 9 days (so far) by ransomware attack"

throwaway118899 — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 10:42:32 +0000

> One the primary goals of any - and indeed every - medical system is to ration resources.

We can fix this. Essentially, every smoker, every alcoholic, and every obese human immediately goes to the back of the line.

No need for this convoluted bullshit of a system.

New comment by throwaway118899 in "US prescription market hamstrung for 9 days (so far) by ransomware attack"

throwaway118899 — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 10:38:57 +0000

Hey Russia/China/India, can you keep up your attacks? You might be the only thing that can get this abomination of a system we call healthcare replaced.

New comment by throwaway118899 in "Why South Korean women aren't having babies"

throwaway118899 — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 14:33:18 +0000

Yep. I’ll be more willing to take a risk and have a child with someone if they won’t get de facto custody and financially ruin me for life if we divorce. Which is statically more probable than us staying together.

New comment by throwaway118899 in ">50% of college graduates are working in jobs that don't require degrees"

throwaway118899 — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 14:27:18 +0000

Well college students spend their entire life having someone tell them what to do and for the first time they need to figure out things in their own.

They’ve also been told to “just learn to code” and are shocked pikachu when someone with a 4 month boot camp is more employable than them in software.

New comment by throwaway118899 in "A 13yo built a 'death ray' using a 2k-year-old concept from Archimedes"

throwaway118899 — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:27:40 +0000

I made a scaled down death ray too when I was younger.

It’s called a magnifying glass.

New comment by throwaway118899 in "Wendy's, burned by CEO comment, vows no price surges for burgers"

throwaway118899 — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:24:11 +0000

Dude was CEO for less than a month before trying this bullshit. It’s just what MBAs do, and they’re the sole reason behind what we’re starting to call enshittification. He went into that job with that idea, and I can guarantee all his other MBA snakes are thinking about ways to implement this.

New comment by throwaway118899 in "Wendy's, burned by CEO comment, vows no price surges for burgers"

throwaway118899 — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:18:15 +0000

Yep, they’ve lost me and I usually get something from there 3-4 times a week because it’s the closest thing nearby. I estimate I’ve spent a few thousand there after starting to work from home two years ago.

This idea simply cannot be tolerated.

New comment by throwaway118899 in "Google CEO calls Gemini completely unacceptable, vows to make structural changes"

throwaway118899 — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:07:04 +0000

It’s going to be treated as what it is, psychological warfare to undermine the stability of America. No other country on this planet seems to suffer these issues to the extent that we do.

New comment by throwaway118899 in "US Military pulls the trigger, uses AI to target air strikes"

throwaway118899 — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 13:55:35 +0000

Nonsense. The core of an article can always fit in a headline. Journalists and their editors know what they’re doing.

Alternative: “US military pulls the trigger, implements AI-assisted pattern matching for military target acquisition”

I even kept their “pulls trigger” pun.

New comment by throwaway118899 in "Wendy's says it has no plans to raise prices during the busiest times"

throwaway118899 — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:42:15 +0000

Yes. MBAs think everyone else is retarded and they’re the people 100% responsible for every ounce of enshittification we deal with on a daily basis.

It’s to the point where, if you’re an MBA, I automatically think the world is better off without you in it.

Edit: And yes, that’s a call for MBAs to commit suicide. We’re literally all better off. Flag me if you want. Idc