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Comment by adamors | Hacker News Reader

Can we have a moratorium on Pokemon Go posts? It is getting really annoying, especially since submissions regarding it have absolutely no value.

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Why? Pokemon Go is the most talked about topic in tech at the moment. Considering this a tech news site, it would seem more than appropriate to show this content.

It's only "talked about" because a commercial company behind it wants it to be talked about. Why do you think all these articles are popping up?

It's talked about because people wanna hear about it. If the articles had no hits, they wouldn't bother publishing them.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

These articles are pretty far from the ones describe in PG's post.

I guess the dozens of people talking about in my social media feeds are all corporate plants. Who knew!

That's a stretch. This is like any other HN fad, like the 2048 variants, javascript frameworks etc.

Pokemon extends way beyond HN.

You must be deluding yourself. It's the most popular mobile game that's ever existed, and it's an ARG at that.

Flag and hide is the way to go.

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its 'flag' link. If you think a comment is egregious, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'flag' at the top. (Not all users see flag links; there's a small karma threshold.)"

Just hide if you're not personally interested. IMO flagging that would be an abuse of the facility and just wasting moderator time.

Do all flags get reviewed by moderators? I was under the impression that if some threshold number of people flag the same topic, it disappears automatically.

I want to actively support keeping the quality of submissions high. Hiding junk like this would not be enough.

Your personal idea of a high quality submission is not the yardstick by which submissions are measured. You get that, right?

Of course!

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