Moderation is for removing submissions that are not appropriate, not for removing the things you don't find very interesting.
There's a clear distinction between the two.
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There's a clear distinction between the two.
We end up with divisive topics that only half of us is interested in on the first page. The other half might completely hate it, even!
I find the personal stuff in a story like this quite interesting, btw.
Of course there's a lot of duplicates and posts with similar information in them, but is that such a big issue? I think people who are flagging posts because they think it's sort of the same as another article is basically abusing the system.
We do not have a downvote button. Major news is allowed here.
This is an active story that a lot of people is interested in, and this means that a lot of posts about it is upvoted.
Shouldn't the flag button only be about things that are not allowed? Not as a way to remove things you find not interesting?
The issue here is that the upvoting is democratic. One person flagging posts based on his opinions (and as you can see in this thread, your opinions are not the same as others, imagine that!) and them getting completely removed because of it is not democratic.
If you don't like things, don't upvote them. They get upvoted because others like them. How can this be so hard to understand?
Your opinion of the quality of the posts here is not what should decide what posts others read!
"Edward Snowden's favorite brand of chicken pot pie" "Kim Dotcom braids his hair!" "Julian Assange orders Cherry Coke instead of regular!" "Elon Musk buys three rare white leopards!"
Do you really like to argue by ridiculing others this much? There hasn't been a story even resembling anything like this, people have actually upvoted things they found interesting.
More links means more people are writing about it. This is good.
Things people like gets upvoted and rise to the top. You did abuse the system, because you used the flagging as a downvote button. This is not Reddit.
And "Edward Snowden's fate is grim" so we should stop caring about him? I'm glad to not see this story go away, and I am actually understanding the issues better because of the articles about it here.
Let the community decide what should be on here.
Isn't it kinda fun, to have sent a tweet from Russia? Just imagine you're standing in a big square in St Petersburg with a proud rainbow flag, inviting Russians to Stockholm!
That's just bad. I really thought Wired were above that. I guess I was wrong.