--- title: Let's stop using flags as down-vote | daily.dev description: A call to the Lobsters community to stop misusing the flagging system as a substitute for downvotes, particularly amid heated AI-related discussions. The post... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/let-s-stop-using-flags-as-down-vote-dpj14c1xj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Let's stop using flags as down-vote | daily.dev og:description: A call to the Lobsters community to stop misusing the flagging system as a substitute for downvotes, particularly amid heated AI-related discussions. The post... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/let-s-stop-using-flags-as-down-vote-dpj14c1xj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/dpj14C1xJ.png og:image:alt: Let's stop using flags as down-vote og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Let's stop using flags as down-vote **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A call to the Lobsters community to stop misusing the flagging system as a substitute for downvotes, particularly amid heated AI-related discussions. The post highlights that good-faith comments on both sides of the AI debate are being flagged inappropriately, and urges users to instead use 'hide' or express disagreement directly. Discussion in the comments touches on de-anonymizing flags, user-level filtering, and whether a proper downvote mechanism would be preferable. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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