See the submissions you have flagged (maybe accidentally)

I just checked and every one of mine are by mistake. Small suggestion for @dang and the dev team but you could put the flag behind a `confirm(...)`, it would be an extra click but would prevent posts from being erroneously flagged.

I have this site set to 125% on tablet, and I still misclick on shit all the fucking time. I only don’t bitch about it because Reddit is even worse.

24 pixels. Thats the minimum affordance suggestion by W3c (and it probably should be 32px IMO) for a click target on mobile if you don’t want to be the asshole. You make the padding clickable if the target is smaller than that.

> Undersized targets (those less than 24 by 24 CSS pixels) are positioned so that if a 24 CSS pixel diameter circle is centered on the bounding box of each, the circles do not intersect another target or the circle for another undersized target;

Also: the meaning of ”flag” isn’t obvious to me as non native (could this be for bookmarking a thread?) so a confirmation dialog explaining what it means could also ve helpful.

Not important, but to whoever maintains this site, on mobile, on the front page of HN, the text goes right to the edge of the screen if the word break does not occur. A few px of padding would be nice!

Same for me. I very rarely flag and I never thought I flagged accidentally but apparently I did in about two thirds of flagged submissions.

I am also never sure if I downvoted by accident or if downvotes are a thing here at all. Sometimes I see up and down arrows, but they are dangerously close on mobile and no matter where I touch they feel like one button anyway. I also could not find a way to see my downvotes, so I am not sure if downvoting is even possible.

EDIT: The up/down arrows work. If I touch the lower half the arrows disappear both and the comment does not appear in my upvoted list. I do get the option to "undown" however (as opposed to the usual "unvote").

My attempts hacking the upvoted comment list URL to find a downvoted list were not successful.

Sorry to parent comment, you were my guinea pig. I restored the upvote, hope the temporary downvote does not hurt.

Yeah. I had probably around 70 flagged submissions, and maybe 5 or 6 of them were on purpose. I read HN on mobile a lot, and didn't even notice that I accidentally flag things (although I know I accidentally hide things all the time, so it's not a surprise)

Me too. I unflagged all of them

Same here. Many use it as a mega downvote button to kill stories they don’t like.

Some dupe posts I flagged are missing last time I looked at it. Possibly working as intended. Comments from another section are missing from my account that I had wanted to save criticizing the moderating down-weight system too.

I liked Slashdot's old moderation system, where you had a drop-down, and you at least had to choose from a few preset "reasons" for your moderation action. It's not perfect, but it might at least cause a few people to pause and reflect on why they feel such a strong urge to get rid of that headline.

For HN, you could map the drop-down contents directly to submission guidelines:

- Poor/incorrect title

- Non-original source

- Promotion/spam

- ...

Dang did say this was on the todo list.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40958364

Like others in the thread, the first time I looked at my list of flagged submissions, there were 20+ just random things on there that I had obviously just fat-fingered on mobile.

I think flagging should be something done quite purposefully, maybe even at the cost of Karma and absolutely need a confirm("...")

This could be fixed with a single confirm().

I'm always accidentally hiding things while scrolling, which I only notice when I see something vanish with no obvious way to bring it back. Who knows how many other things I've done by accident that don't have obvious visual cues. Likewise, I'm always fat-fingering downvote when I mean to upvote, but at least nowadays there's an indicator of what you've done and a way to undo your vote (for a long time, there wasn't!).

This and voting up/down are a pain on the mobile UI. It's too easy to downvote instead of upvote, or flag something without even noticing in this case. (I just found two perfectly normal posts I've flagged)

I think the main reason is the Web1.0 design of HN doesn't translate well to small screens.

I opened that page expecting maybe one or two accidental flags, since I thought myself to be quiet careful when looking at hn on mobile. Instead, it's more like 70% for me. I'll now try to make it a habit to check this page quite often, but this is just fighting the symptoms. I believe a confirmation popup or something similar would help a lot more.

> Especially when it only takes, what, 2 flags for something to be killed?

Feels like that's being gamed at the moment, certain topics are killed instantly.

Perhaps if you have anything flagged in past 48h, it says so with a top banner that shows flagged submissions?

And hidden https://news.ycombinator.com/hidden

(I literally just accidentally pressed hide on a post and was wondering how to un-hide it when I saw this post, nice coincidence!)

Reverse pinch to zoom? What you mean? I can only zoom in.

This is a big problem with the flag system - it constantly gets abused as a "I hate this person's opinion" button. It's very common to see comments flagged to death simply because they expressed an unpopular opinion (especially about politics), even though the comments are perfectly polite and on-topic for the thread. I keep show dead on and vouch for comments when I see they have been shouted down in this way, but unfortunately the user behavior is deeply ingrained and unlikely to go away.

I notice downvote button isn’t always available on some of the debate-y threads. Sometimes the reply button isn’t available for some time too. I assume high response velocity is more so enabling arguements to take place, like happens on Reddit more commonly. Anyways, I wonder if you’re being flagged in absence of a downvote function/button being available.