Besides the people complaining about the flagging, the thread seems just as high-quality as any other HN thread. People are curious, sharing information and personal experiences. If that's low-quality then we might as well restrict HN submissions to press releases from the Fortune 500 only.
Yeah, thought it was fine, but some comments said it was devolving into flamewar. Let's just stick to one discussion and article post and not archive workarounds
Btw I'm not taking flags off this current post because the article should not have been posted with an archive.org link. Archive links are only ok as submission URLs when the original source isn't accessible.
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[ 6.5 ms ] story [ 23.8 ms ] threadThe other one is not 'gone', the discussion is there, low-quality as it might be
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245
Btw I'm not taking flags off this current post because the article should not have been posted with an archive.org link. Archive links are only ok as submission URLs when the original source isn't accessible.
Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html