When were flagged submissions/comments added to the profile page?

It was added on Wednesday, about three weeks after I emailed to ask for some amelioration of my occasional clumsiness with phone screens leading to a high rate of erroneously flagged stories.

I didn't really go in with an expectation, certainly not for that kind of amazing responsiveness and turnaround time. Thanks, dang!

Well I just found out that somehow over the years I had flagged 30+ totally innocuous items. So I've unflagged them all. They were more like things I would have been interested in rather than upset by. So I guess I was flagging instead of favoriting or some such madness.

All 10 on my flagged posts were accidents. Think this probably highlights a UX issue and the need for an "are you sure?" popup.

Nice to see it added, quite a lot of people found out they had fat finger flagged some content when I told HN about these (then) hidden pages: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30253799

Edit: as stated in that post, you can also see your vouched items by accessing https://news.ycombinator.com/vouched

Apparently I’ve flagged about 100 submissions since 2015, and I’d wager none were intentional.

Apologies to posters that didn’t get the complete chance their submissions deserved.

Wow great feature. Apparently I accidentally hit the “flag” button all of the time because every one of my flagged posts was an accident. Now I get to go through and unflag them all. Sorry about that whoever made the post!

Thanks for the tip. Every flag for me was accidental.

I just checked my flags.

Everything earlier than 2017 or so was straight up a mistake. I didn't know what "flag" did, so I must have clicked it to experiment back then and just never realized I kept the flag this whole time. I just undid those flags.

There were 3 or 4 submissions I actually flagged for real that I'll keep the flag on. A bunch of comments that I've flagged.

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This seems like a good feature, in practice, I seem to have a fair number of mistaken flags (albeit from earlier before I knew what the feature did). But even today I've got a few misclicks, perfectly normal topics I must have accidentally hit the "flag" button on that I really shouldn't have.

When were flagged submissions/comments added to the profile page?

Not sure but here [1] are some of the other URL's on HN one could bookmark.

[1] - https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#public... [not my repo]

Since lots of people are accidentally flagging on mobile and I'm currently revisiting my Hacker News extension to add a Safari version, I'm adding something which will let you choose your preferred solution for this (hide the flag control or require a confirm):

https://github.com/insin/hn-comments-owl/issues/14#issuecomm...

It's interesting to see how many people have flagged by mistake. I'm a relatively new user of HN and has been always shocked to see many good posts getting flagged.

I also think either a confirmation dialog or "what's wrong?" input for the flag would be good.

(As a side note, I have seen many good comments being down voted too without any reason, but that's for another day probably :D )

On mobile it's too easy to accidentally click Flag.

I checked my profile and noticed a handful of accidental Flags this year alone.

Perhaps a confirmation dialog would solve it.

Why does my own show 2 flagged submissions when I did not submit either of those things?

Is it saying that I flagged them?

edit, I see the unflag links now, which resolves that.

When I saw this post, I thought the new flagging links were added to help track biases from users. For example, there might be users on this platform that will flag anything that might be critical of their fav tech company or political ideology.

I did not expect to see so many comments (nearly all of them, ~2 hours into this post) referring to accidental flagging.

Whatever the reasons, I like the new links.

Glad to hear I wasn’t the only one accidentally flagging submissions! I had about 20 on my list going back to 2011 and only 1-2 were legitimately flag-worthy. Far fewer comments, only 4, and of those only 1 was by error. However my account can still flag submissions, but I noticed recently I don’t have the ability to flag comments for whatever reason.

I'd like a setting to disable flagging. I saw that I accidentally flagged some submissions and unflagged then now. I probably upvoted many of them and flagged them instead of tapping the link on my phone.

I'm always surprised when I see some submission flagged on purpose by others. They are often interesting stuff. I upvoted and commented some of them.

Sometimes my comments get flagged, that is always a good lesson on what is possible to say in some abroad communities. In some areas of possible opinions I do not even receive a single downvote, but a flag and it is always instant. I have no opinion about the topic, just a little observation.

the list clearly includes actions from long ago, so this data was recorded, just not visible to the account holder

in that sense, it is somehow a benefit, to see more of what is tracked behind the scenes. It seems obvious that these simple values are easily used make profiles of profiles, in aggregate.

Gotta be in the last 14 days. Wonder what the use is though, when looking at my reports I see a couple spam flags and a dozen utterly vile and down-greyed comments. Not sure why anyone would want to see what they have reported...

Tangentially related .. can we bring back average karma score or whatever it was?

I really felt like it was a good tool to help curb people from posting useless throwaway comments.

Anyone know why this was removed?

Flag 'em all; let dang sort them out.

I had 10, all of which were accidental. It's so easy to accidentally hit flag with this UI

Happy to see the link to Hiddens. Sometimes I hide the wrong one and there was no way out.

@dang can we add more friction to the flag thing? Maybe just a yes/no after.

Wow, looks like I flagged several posts ver the years, 100% by accident.

Jeez, I knew I sometimes misclicked but I have to do something about it.

Am I the only one who doesn't have these links in my profile?

lots of calls for a pop up confirmation. Consider colors or bolding: click flag, it becomes bold and red.

I had no idea I ever flagged a submission.

I have like 200+ flags and every single one has been intentional. I am not sure the accidental excuse applies here. You either flag something or you don’t.