alt Hacker NewsMy radical opinion is there shouldn't be 2 flags, there should be N flags, user defined, so that we can flag humor/satire/factuality/insight/political and a bunch of other things. I fully realize that's not going to fly any time soon.
Adding AI in addition to the standard up/downvote and flag seems a reasonable thing.
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The issue with N-flagging is that every flag needs to be universally-defined and equally applied.
If one person's humor is another person's satire is another person's political, then splitting it into N options muddles the signal.
Downvotes are bad enough between "I disagree with this" and "This isn't an appropriate comment for HN."
i think you're thinking of flair like on reddit, flag is more of a 'report spam' type feature
Flags are a signal to the moderation system. What does it mean to "flag" something as "factuality" or "satire"?
That sounds like /.'s moderation system. Not that I disagree, theme based filtering could be fun but also encourages things like meme threads that you'd see on reddit under the guise of "Just filter funny out and let us have fun".