Ask HN: Why my post get [flagged]?

2 points by gagan2020 31 days ago | 6 comments

Why my post is flagged?

I will consider it as sabotaging since someone definitely competitive enough to block my ShowHN post. That's why moderators are needed and tooling for moderators.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357884

benoau 31 days ago |

There's only two ways to get flagged: automatically via defence mechanisms, or submitting something HN users deem inappropriate.

There already are moderators and mechanisms for HN users to "vouch" for flagged posts too, your post doesn't seem to be flagged now so I guess some people did that.

gagan2020 31 days ago | |

Yes, now its not flagged. Thanks for Good people of HN who vouched my post. And, thanks to you as well for explaining it perfectly.

pwg 31 days ago |

Your post reads as an advertisement.

That is most likely why the number necessary of users flagged it.

Flagging is from normal readers hitting the "flag" button (those with enough karma to obtain flagging rights).

gagan2020 31 days ago | |

I marked the post as ShowHN. And, my understanding is ShowHN is product promotion only that user have developed. Is my understanding wrong?

pwg 31 days ago | | |

Regardless, reading as if it were "advertising" would possibly trigger the anti-advertising users, and HN is likely to have a slightly higher percentage of "anti-advertising" users than found in the general public. They may never notice the "ShowHN" label once they are triggered to think "just another SPAM".

verzali 31 days ago |

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html