<story><title>White House Petition to End Software Patents Is a Hit</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27194/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jxcole</author><text>There is absolutely no justification for flagging this. I am disheartened that hacker news has become a place where people flag stuff they dislike rather than posting a rebuttal. I feel this is a systemic error, it is currently too easy for a few people to kill articles they don&apos;t like.</text></item><item><author>bane</author><text>Interesting to note that this is currently #1 with &amp;#62;100 points, while my link to the &lt;i&gt;actual&lt;/i&gt; petition was flagged and is now marked dead.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3032320&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3032320&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;According to the guidlines&lt;p&gt;&quot;Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.&quot;&lt;p&gt;bizarre.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Patent advocates are outnumbered by practitioners who are virulently anti-patent by at least 100-1 on HN. Who would be flagging an article like that off in bad faith?</text></comment>
<story><title>White House Petition to End Software Patents Is a Hit</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27194/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jxcole</author><text>There is absolutely no justification for flagging this. I am disheartened that hacker news has become a place where people flag stuff they dislike rather than posting a rebuttal. I feel this is a systemic error, it is currently too easy for a few people to kill articles they don&apos;t like.</text></item><item><author>bane</author><text>Interesting to note that this is currently #1 with &amp;#62;100 points, while my link to the &lt;i&gt;actual&lt;/i&gt; petition was flagged and is now marked dead.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3032320&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3032320&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;According to the guidlines&lt;p&gt;&quot;Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.&quot;&lt;p&gt;bizarre.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rwl</author><text>If the flagging is intentional, I agree. But it is also ridiculously easy to accidentally flag an article in a mobile browser on a touchscreen device. I have to wonder how many illegitimate flags come in that way.</text></comment>