Users who accumulate sufficient karma gain the ability to "flag" a post. When a sufficient number of different users with "flag" power click "flag" on a post, then it becomes [flagged].
So anyone can flag stuff, just cause they don't like something.... So how can you ask questions and ask for advise with out upsetting someone and getting flagged
Basically, put your question in the title field on https://news.ycombinator.com/submit, fill in the text field with the details and explanation, and leave the URL field empty.
I asked a common sense question once in some Julian Assange thread… flagged. For some people some subjects take on an irrational religious experience. Anything that is not a forceful agreement must be destroyed.
I get it so if it looks like advertising or spam it gets flagged ok ok so I need to word posts better and maybe ask somehow for comments on a url but not link out to it? Or how
The URL might still be advertising and users might still not like it. No amount of wording could change that. Sometimes it's "not hackernews material", it can't be forced.
I get it I'll not push my website so hard and just ask for advise on security or thoughts on subjects, that actually are interesting. Share it only to get feedback not to get views. Again new here good day kind human.
They have guidelines posted. But in reality, as with real laws, there are things that are prosecuted that shouldn't be, and things that aren't prosecuted that should be.
For example, I have seen many insulting postings that don't get flagged, while many off-topic political posts go completely unchecked, and are largely group-think.
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Basically, put your question in the title field on https://news.ycombinator.com/submit, fill in the text field with the details and explanation, and leave the URL field empty.
They have guidelines posted. But in reality, as with real laws, there are things that are prosecuted that shouldn't be, and things that aren't prosecuted that should be.
For example, I have seen many insulting postings that don't get flagged, while many off-topic political posts go completely unchecked, and are largely group-think.