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Comment Flagging on HN as of Late

Is it just me or is comment-flagging becoming the default means of disagreeing here? Isn't that feature supposed to be reserved for anti-socially ridiculously deliberately offensive materials that need to be removed etc?

I'm also less and less convinced about this "points voting system" in which a downvote costs the downvoting person nothing, nor is any justification necessary.

I would like to see a flag require a submitted textual reason, and downvotes require a comment postulating a coherent and logical motive, that obviously needn't be agreed-upon, but some input of some kind to raise the bar needed to damage someone.

21 points hootbootscoot 6 years ago 28 comments

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