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Comment by turtlebits | Hacker News Reader

We need a HN min-release-age flag for posted projects.

Or some flag to ignore users that post these types of projects often.

The site and community should be structured such that what it values discussion for naturally bubbles up, not different opinionated flags for each interest, fad, or pet peeve.

Though, funnily enough, this kind of info and more is extremely easy to add to HN via a vibed extension. At this point, mine just stops HN from loading completely and constructs its own page (with a proper dark theme and the information I care about).

Any community needs not only a bubbling up of good content, but also an immune system against bad content. Otherwise in practice you become inundated with spam and noise.

The reason for this is an effort asymmetry: casting upvotes is easy, and most people do it without much thought, whereas determining that something is spam or misinformation requires looking a lot more closely.

I usually don't post a lot, but to be honest: the components demo definitely caught my attention (I know it's coded by Claude)

It's not my project but I will definitely give the library a try.

Surprised post downvoting is not a thing yet.

You can flag it

for me, it strongly feels impolite to do so if the post is not breaking the rules

Yes, and flags are very powerful and I have seen them abused (IMO) a number of times as a replacement for a downvote button.

Yes, I sometimes wish for a downvote button, but so far I have more often wished for a way to silently make flagging a no op for users that abuse it.

For that HN posting rules should be updated with "no low-quality submissions".

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