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See the submissions you have flagged (maybe accidentally)
- johnea 2y agoI actually had one 8-/ and I never flag (intentionally). Flagging is for trolls...
- Flimm 2y agoI can see dozens, maybe hundreds,q of submissions that were all flagged accidentally. I wish Hacker News paid a minimum of attention to UX on small touchscreens.
- r721 2y agoAlso - submissions you have vouched for: https://news.ycombinator.com/vouched https://news.ycombinator.com/vouched
- kogens 2y agoAnd hidden https://news.ycombinator.com/hidden https://news.ycombinator.com/hidden (I literally just accidentally pressed hide on a post and was wondering how to un-hide it when I saw this post, nice coincidence!)
- Aachen 2y agoYou can email HN to enable a hidden feature that hides the hide button/link. I've got it enabled because I never used the function anyway; it's much nicer not being able to accidentally hide things. Not sure why it's not on the profile page
- Neywiny 2y agoI keep accidentally tapping "flag". This is a good reminder but I do occasionally go back and unflag them. My bigger concern is that the act of flagging does something that's not just being flagged.
- deanc 2y agoIt seems I have flagged quite a few things while dozing off to sleep reading HN in bed. Would these more impactful actions be better served with a confirmation? Even a prompt would do
- TheFreim 2y agoI wish there was a way to manually enable more friction for flagging. When I use the site on mobile I find it very easy to accidentally flag when I am trying to hide a post, a setting to enable a confirmation window would be quite useful to help prevent this.
- kibwen 2y agoI'm always accidentally hiding things while scrolling, which I only notice when I see something vanish with no obvious way to bring it back. Who knows how many other things I've done by accident that don't have obvious visual cues. Likewise, I'm always fat-fingering downvote when I mean to upvote, but at least nowadays there's an indicator of what you've done and a way to undo your vote (for a long time, there wasn't!).
- swores 2y ago> (for a long time, there wasn't!) Back then I decided to never upvote anything, because hitting the wrong arrow was so easy and that I figured no votes was a better contribution to the site than frequently wrong direction votes! It's fairly rare now that I accidentally click anything other than a (thankfully easy to reverse) up or down arrow, but I still 100% agree that anything like "hide" should be easily reversible.
- oezi 2y agoI think flagging should be something done quite purposefully, maybe even at the cost of Karma and absolutely need a confirm("...")
- lucasyvas 2y agoI had about 15 posts that I had apparently flagged for no deliberate reason. 0 were intentionally flagged - guess I also have mobile fat finger.
- sanbor 2y agoThank you for sharing. I had three perfectly normal flagged posts I don’t recall flagging
- filoeleven 2y agoIf I flag a comment (or submission), does that immediately flag it for everyone, or must it reach some threshold of flags before that happens? I’ve always assumed the latter. Nevertheless, flagging is a tool I make sure to use only if a comment is a personal attack against someone, or a story (in the New view) whose content doesn’t match its headline. For most other scenarios, either moving on and ignoring it or perhaps downvoting it is enough.
- crazygringo 2y agoWow, around half of mine I accidentally flagged, I'm guessing. Definitely feels like there ought to be some kind of confirmation required. Especially when it only takes, what, 2 flags for something to be killed? (Or is it more, or does it depend on votes?)
- fnordian_slip 2y agoI opened that page expecting maybe one or two accidental flags, since I thought myself to be quiet careful when looking at hn on mobile. Instead, it's more like 70% for me. I'll now try to make it a habit to check this page quite often, but this is just fighting the symptoms. I believe a confirmation popup or something similar would help a lot more.
- clcaev 2y agoPerhaps if you have anything flagged in past 48h, it says so with a top banner that shows flagged submissions?
- matsemann 2y ago> Especially when it only takes, what, 2 flags for something to be killed? Feels like that's being gamed at the moment, certain topics are killed instantly.
- Beestie 2y agoI need smaller fingers
- TriangleEdge 2y agoI've been flagging all posts I see related to politics. I understand politics and popular tech are now intertwined, but I still find it annoying to see it on a forum dedicated to hackers, startups, hobbyists, and makers.
- ryandrake 2y agoFlagging is supposed to be for rule breaking, not to be used as some sort of mega-downvote for things you really don't like. If you don't want to read an article, why not just use the "hide" feature or move along to the next row?
- fngjdflmdflg 2y ago>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics.[0] I guess if GP had said "I've been flagging most posts I see related to politics" that would be fine. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- ryandrake 2y ago"About politics" is kind of vague. It's not like an article is either political or it's not. If you saw these headines at the top of HN, which of these would you consider "too political" and worthy of flagging? - "Funding for NASA's next science mission in question" - "A deep dive into the IRS's legacy computer systems" - "State governors band together to propose new cyber-security rules" - "UK government again takes aim at encryption" - "List of IT systems DOGE staff members have access to" Are all of these things just not-discussable here anymore, merely because they brush up against a government or politics?
- fngjdflmdflg 2y agoWell there are two qualifiers there: >unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. and >If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic Going off these, I would say "A deep dive into the IRS's legacy computer systems" is clearly fine, and the others could be considered questionable to varying degrees. I think it's fair to say that a news update should not automatically be considered an interesting new phenomenon because almost by definition all TV news will have some new element to it, and that is expressly labeled as "probably off-topic."
- snowwrestler 2y agoFolks with trouble hitting the little links and arrows on mobile: reverse-pinch to zoom works great on HN. Make the arrows huge on the screen and it’s easy to hit the one you want.
- matsemann 2y agoReverse pinch to zoom? What you mean? I can only zoom in.
- oneeyedpigeon 2y agoThat's exactly what they mean: reverse pinch to zoom in.
- ayewo 2y agoSee: https://i.sstatic.net/2BDFS.png https://i.sstatic.net/2BDFS.png [1] Reverse pinch == "Unpinch" in the image above. [1] Original is at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49439378/google-chrome-disable-pinch-zoom https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49439378/google-chrome-d...
- matsemann 2y agoDoes nothing here, perhaps browser/device specific?
- ajb 2y agoYes, most of mine are accidental as I very rarely flag anything deliberately. ~10/year looks like.
- Aachen 2y ago2 per 4 years here (and 1 accidental). I don't really see a reason to flag most submissions. What kinds of things do you, or should we, flag? My understanding is that flags are for moderator attention (with an automatic system for if people pile flags on the same thing). I'm not sure I see many of those among the submissions, one of the two flags I put was a title that was leading to a mislead and pointless discussion and only a moderator can fix that
- ajb 2y agoI meant, it looks like I accidentally flag ~10 per year. Real flags similar to you. Obviously spam needs to be flagged. People who are kind enough to do the work of looking at /newest for the rest of us will use it a lot.
- megous 2y agoI just flag everything that has LLM/AI in the title. Technology is just too "magical" and reporting about it repetitive, to be interesting to read about anymore, or to learn something from that would be useful to me. Also, why should I not suppress something that's trying to eventually replace my job? :) Then everything from big news websites or local american news websites. I don't care about the US anymore, nor what journalists there think about the world. And then anything that comes from any of the big companies. Google, Amazon, Facebook/Meta, Apple, etc. They don't need any more attention that they already get and I don't use any of their services anyway, to care about their announcements. This works well for streamlining the process, since there can be a lot of LLM stuff at any given day: // ==UserScript== // @name Flaghider // @namespace Violentmonkey Scripts // @match https://news.ycombinator.com/* // @grant none // @version 1.0 // @author - // @description 7/13/2024, 9:03:34 PM // ==/UserScript== let lastEl; document.addEventListener('mousemove', ev => { let el = ev.target.closest('.athing'); if (lastEl) lastEl.style.backgroundColor = ''; lastEl = el; if (lastEl) lastEl.style.backgroundColor = '#fcc'; }); function wait(ms) { return new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, ms)); } window.addEventListener('keydown', async ev => { if (ev.key == 'b' && lastEl) { let el = lastEl.nextElementSibling; let hide = Array.from(el.querySelectorAll('a')).find(e => e.textContent == 'hide'); let flag = Array.from(el.querySelectorAll('a')).find(e => e.textContent == 'flag'); localStorage.setItem('scroll', document.body.scrollTop); hide.click(); await wait(300); location.href = flag.href; } }); document.body.scrollTop = localStorage.getItem('scroll');
- ryandrake 2y agoI hope dang and the HN software have tools for detecting this kind of abuse of flagging. I don't care for the constant stream of LLM articles either, but they aren't breaking any site rules. Just move along and read the next article.
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- DanAtC 2y agoThe most satisfying thing is flagging something and seeing it go [flagged][dead]
- lzlarryli 2y agoAll my flagged are by mistake. This is a UI issue for mobile. Flag and hide really should not be put next to discuss on the equal footing on the front page (the usage ratio should be more than 10x). I use discuss many times a day but never hide or flag. Maybe it is better to only show these on the discussion page (better for more thoughtful actions too, less incentive to flag without even having a chance of glancing the discussion).
- NobodyNada 2y agoYeah. I had probably around 70 flagged submissions, and maybe 5 or 6 of them were on purpose. I read HN on mobile a lot, and didn't even notice that I accidentally flag things (although I know I accidentally hide things all the time, so it's not a surprise)
- jjcc 2y agoMe too. I unflagged all of them
- _fat_santa 2y agoI just checked and every one of mine are by mistake. Small suggestion for @dang and the dev team but you could put the flag behind a `confirm(...)`, it would be an extra click but would prevent posts from being erroneously flagged.
- hinkley 2y agoI have this site set to 125% on tablet, and I still misclick on shit all the fucking time. I only don’t bitch about it because Reddit is even worse. 24 pixels. Thats the minimum affordance suggestion by W3c (and it probably should be 32px IMO) for a click target on mobile if you don’t want to be the asshole. You make the padding clickable if the target is smaller than that. > Undersized targets (those less than 24 by 24 CSS pixels) are positioned so that if a 24 CSS pixel diameter circle is centered on the bounding box of each, the circles do not intersect another target or the circle for another undersized target;
- savolai 2y agoAlso: the meaning of ”flag” isn’t obvious to me as non native (could this be for bookmarking a thread?) so a confirmation dialog explaining what it means could also ve helpful.
- cjcampbell 2y agoThe flag button sits right in the zone I swipe with my right thumb on mobile. Occasionally I notice and go unflag something. Clicking through this, I found several pages of posts I’ve flagged. I’d guess I’ve done no more than five posts intentionally. The rest were just the big dumb thumbs. I wholeheartedly agree with the recommendation to add a confirmation to the action.
- rbanffy 2y agoThere has been a lot of flagging lately. Of my recent submissions there are a couple expected flags (subjects that tend to descend into uncivilised discussions - Musk, DOGE, Tesla), but also some very harmless ones as well (one about Apple’s Severance online series-related goodies).
- m3kw9 2y agoIncidentally I saw this post also flavged
- EcommerceFlow 2y agoAny type of "wrong think" on my account gets flagged these days, makes commenting on debates pointless. I said this about SpaceX vs Nasa and my comment got flagged: "SpaceX has shown us that private enterprise is the way. Giant decades long projects are slow, stifled by bureaucracy, and less effective." This was in a political post about Nasa gets their budget cut, a political position I support with the above rational.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoThis is a big problem with the flag system - it constantly gets abused as a "I hate this person's opinion" button. It's very common to see comments flagged to death simply because they expressed an unpopular opinion (especially about politics), even though the comments are perfectly polite and on-topic for the thread. I keep show dead on and vouch for comments when I see they have been shouted down in this way, but unfortunately the user behavior is deeply ingrained and unlikely to go away.
- 93po 2y agoi downvote comments that some might interpret as “i disagree with this” downvoting, but in reality, i downvote comments that shoehorn in a contentious opinion only loosely related to the topic, usually because the commenter has an axe to grind. i also downvote comments that feel astroturf-adjacent—those that echo a common but tiresome sentiment, especially when it’s not well-founded in facts but instead regurgitated as a talking point pushed by billionaire-owned corporate media to an audience that doesn’t always critically examine the narratives being fed to them. i want HN to have curious and interesting conversation founded in objective facts. the previously desscribed style of commenting is not that, so i will downvote it
- conductr 2y agoI notice downvote button isn’t always available on some of the debate-y threads. Sometimes the reply button isn’t available for some time too. I assume high response velocity is more so enabling arguements to take place, like happens on Reddit more commonly. Anyways, I wonder if you’re being flagged in absence of a downvote function/button being available.
- jv22222 2y agoWow I've never flagged anything but there are 24 items in there! Would be good to have a confirm()
- dang 2y agoOk you guys, I hear you and will try to work on the confirmation thing soon.
- jader201 2y agodang, one other option (in addition to/instead of a confirmation): Simply remove the link from the listing. This may work out better, anyway, to add at least one more click of friction to flagging (e.g. for people that may just flippantly/habitually flag stuff based on title alone). This would also probably remove 99% of the accidental flags, since I’m guessing most happen from the listing vs. the thread. And it would be easier! :)
- dang 2y agoThat's a great suggestion, especially since it's how comment flagging works already (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cflag https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cflag). Thanks!
- therealdrag0 2y agoFor those wanting better mobile UX. There is an iOS app called “HACK” which I’ve been using happily for years.