It’s not an elite group. I used to believe as you do, to a lesser degree. But even if that were true, you aren’t meaningfully disadvantaged by not being able to flag things. It’s like a super-downvote. You don’t even have downvote at 0 karma to my knowledge. There are karma tiers for feature unlocks, but they are pretty low, like 31 or something for vouch? I know there’s a link on HN with this info.
The lack of negative interactivity for new and lower karma accounts is meant to be a kind of training wheels period, where if you get karma, you’ll implicitly learn what is acceptable at HN, and until you do, your ability to embody and enforce the ideals of HN is limited to positive or neutral actions of upvoting and posting.
The lack of negative interactivity for new and lower karma accounts is meant to be a kind of training wheels period, where if you get karma, you’ll implicitly learn what is acceptable at HN, and until you do, your ability to embody and enforce the ideals of HN is limited to positive or neutral actions of upvoting and posting.
Here you go, courtesy of HN user minimaxir
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19212822
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...