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{That link returns a "no such item" for me. EDIT: Thanks Minmaxir; not sure why I missed something so obvious}

I used to flag a lot of these stories as soon as I saw them. I stopped doing that and now I wait until the discussion turns toxic - which it almost always does - before I flag them.

I'm not sure that waiting for the conversations to turn awful is a useful tactic.

Also, it would be great to know if there was vote-ring style detection on some of these threads. It feels pretty clear that there is infiltration from RedPill like posters who vote and post in groups, but I am aware that this is strongly playing to my biases and perhaps it's just people who happen to agree with each other.



The url is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8083596 ; Markdown does not like it when you put punctuation next to a URL.

I don't think I've ever flagged a thread based on the comments (down votes are sufficient), but that's not a bad idea.


> That link returns a "no such item" for me.

Overzealous punctuation. Fixed, thanks.




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