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the mods take flagging rights away from people they find abusing it

>>detaro+(OP)
My proposed approach is a little more automated. The mods don't have to find and remove flagging rights individually, they just unflag a post and instantly all the users who had flagged it lose some credibility for future flags.

EDIT: The "flagging trustworthiness" could even help mods to find posts which might need to be unflagged quicker based on the average trustworthiness of the flags.

>>detaro+(OP)
i would like an option in the settings to disable/enable my ability to flag content. On mobile, I have accidentally flagged things and recall it being challenging to hit the button to unflag.

>>idbeho+L
But unfortunately that could lead to a chilling effect on flagging deserving content. I like having dang and other moderators involved as the final say to reverse a decision if it's necessary. I am pretty conservative with my own flagging and vouching (I've vouched precisely once and it was a comment I strongly disagreed with but was clearly made in good faith and added to the discussion) and I believe that other folks are as well. Since the system mostly works and since social media upvoting algorithms are so insanely complicated to balance well I think it's fair to avoid rocking the boat.

>>munk-a+96
I don’t think so. I’d still be able to flag, just my flags would count for less. And not make that discount visible to me.

>>idbeho+L
Wait, flags are only meant to be used for bad things? I've been using them for “title is bad, pls change” requests. (Oops.)

>>stingr+S1
Yeah, about 80% of my flags on the homepage are precisely this.

>>stingr+S1
Or just remove the link from the list view. (Only show the flag link when viewing a particular story.)

(I've also done that by mistake like four times.)

>>wizzwi+qn
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#flag

> What does [flagged] mean?

> It means that users flagged a post as breaking the guidelines or otherwise not belonging on Hacker News.

>>idbeho+TR1
Fortunately you can see everything you've flagged at /flagged?id=username; I corrected my flagging.