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Not just a bad/poor comment/article. You can have a horrifically written article on Erlang and it would still be on Hacker News, therefore not deserving of flag
by Scriptor 16y ago
Not just a bad/poor comment/article. You can have a horrifically written article on Erlang and it would still be on Hacker News, therefore not deserving of flagging. What's supposed to happen is that nobody upvotes it and it stays in obscurity. On the other hand, even a brilliant article on upcoming political elections should be flagged because it's off-topic.
- ErrantX 16y agoI won't disagree; although in my mind it is cleaner if the badly written (as in fallacious, factually wrong, ranting, flamebait etc rather than the quality of the writing) is flagged too.