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Moderation is for removing submissions that are not appropriate, not for removing the things you don't find very interesting.

There's a clear distinction between the two.

Which is REALLY GOOD.

We end up with divisive topics that only half of us is interested in on the first page. The other half might completely hate it, even!

No, my point is that people are upvoting articles they find interesting, which might not be the same things that I find interesting, and I'm ok with this.

I find the personal stuff in a story like this quite interesting, btw.

Of course there's a lot of duplicates and posts with similar information in them, but is that such a big issue? I think people who are flagging posts because they think it's sort of the same as another article is basically abusing the system.

Sorry, English is not my first language.

We do not have a downvote button. Major news is allowed here.

This is an active story that a lot of people is interested in, and this means that a lot of posts about it is upvoted.

Shouldn't the flag button only be about things that are not allowed? Not as a way to remove things you find not interesting?

The issue here is that the upvoting is democratic. One person flagging posts based on his opinions (and as you can see in this thread, your opinions are not the same as others, imagine that!) and them getting completely removed because of it is not democratic.

If you don't like things, don't upvote them. They get upvoted because others like them. How can this be so hard to understand?

Your opinion of the quality of the posts here is not what should decide what posts others read!

Flagging != downvoting. We should upvote things we find interesting, and flag things that isn't appropriate at all.

Oh give up.

"Edward Snowden's favorite brand of chicken pot pie" "Kim Dotcom braids his hair!" "Julian Assange orders Cherry Coke instead of regular!" "Elon Musk buys three rare white leopards!"

Do you really like to argue by ridiculing others this much? There hasn't been a story even resembling anything like this, people have actually upvoted things they found interesting.

More links means more people are writing about it. This is good.

Stop being a douche with crap examples of posts that would never be on Hacker News; let others have their own opinions. Click and upvote the links you find interesting?

Why not let the others here decide what they think is interesting instead of flagging posts?

Things people like gets upvoted and rise to the top. You did abuse the system, because you used the flagging as a downvote button. This is not Reddit.

Is not talking about it better?

This is a story that people are upvoting because they find it interesting. It is also a very active one, where new interesting information is coming up all the time.

And "Edward Snowden's fate is grim" so we should stop caring about him? I'm glad to not see this story go away, and I am actually understanding the issues better because of the articles about it here.

Let the community decide what should be on here.

Yes, life is that binary, either you're with us or with the terrorists, either you do your dishes or you don't. Wat.

mission accomplished: http://imgur.com/7YJ8GpU

We love Russians, I'm married to one myself. Why would we be afraid of them?

Read the fine print, we set the twitter geolocation for your tweet, if you have geolocation on.

Isn't it kinda fun, to have sent a tweet from Russia? Just imagine you're standing in a big square in St Petersburg with a proud rainbow flag, inviting Russians to Stockholm!

Tohank you, and f course you can. We used a modified version of http://soulwire.github.io/Makisu/ with a simple fallback for browsers that can't do css 3d transforms.

We also set longitude and latitude for tweets to inside Russia. Promise though - we don't do anything but tweet it, but guess you'll have to trust us on this one.

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w00t. Damn it, guys, i posted this site when i first released it two weeks ago, and noone cared. :)

The tag on the Wired rebuttal to the rebuttal: Crazy Ivans.

That's just bad. I really thought Wired were above that. I guess I was wrong.

Just so we're all on the same - very ignorant - page, are you talking race in 2012? Come on, todays French are a big mix of whatever. This mix is what is French.

ABORT.