> flagged, which is meant for spam and offtopic links
It's meant for bad links. Spam and off-topic articles are included, but that is not its exclusive use. For example, a post about how much the author hates gay startup founders is more on-topic than a lot of stuff that gets posted here, but is nonetheless inappropriate on numerous levels.
I don't know if I would flag a news story about a Microsoft ad campaign, but I'd probably at least consider it, because those are not generally very intellectually stimulating.
Why should propaganda necessarily be something we see promoted on HN? At last previous MS ads apologised for the 1000s of hours debugging poor IE bugs.
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Another example of a Microsoft article getting hit today:
http://hnrankings.info/4849090/
Microsoft mocks Internet Explorer haters in new ad
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4849090
Urm, Microsoft should not be mocking people for suffering their late and fragmented attempts at web browsing.
They should be thankful the dev community is giving IE10 a go and actually being encouraging to some extent.
That is completely orthogonal to the fact that the news about such an ad needs to be flagged, which is meant for spam and offtopic links.
> flagged, which is meant for spam and offtopic links
It's meant for bad links. Spam and off-topic articles are included, but that is not its exclusive use. For example, a post about how much the author hates gay startup founders is more on-topic than a lot of stuff that gets posted here, but is nonetheless inappropriate on numerous levels.
I don't know if I would flag a news story about a Microsoft ad campaign, but I'd probably at least consider it, because those are not generally very intellectually stimulating.
It does if the links content is badly unfunny.
Why should propaganda necessarily be something we see promoted on HN? At last previous MS ads apologised for the 1000s of hours debugging poor IE bugs.