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Ask HN: Shouldn't we increase flagging threshold?

1•alkyon•1h ago
For some reason there is a huge discrepancy between karma you need to downvote comments (over 500) and flag submissions (31 according to https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/master/README.md#flaggingvouching).

As flagging often creates a lot of controversy, shouldn't we make it more difficult for relatively new accounts to flag submissions by increasing the threshold to let say 100 or even 200?

Comments

razingeden•1h ago
My .02 : a minimum account age or score before someone can submit a link or post. Would solve half of the things that are being flagged in the first place.
alkyon•57m ago
Very good point. As an added benefit, new accounts would be gathering karma slower by creating valuable comments as opposed to some more or less random submissions.

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