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As we can all see by this thread, the human biases/incentives that go into being a moderator of a forum can be quite suspect… and automated attempts that aren't

As we can all see by this thread, the human biases/incentives that go into being a moderator of a forum can be quite suspect… and automated attempts that aren't transparent in totality from people which such biases (i.e. all of the weights things have on hn and the branching logic that determines who/what gets [dead], despite the likelihood of people gamifying them to some degree) will be equally suspect…

DanBC 11y ago
An alternative interpretation is that some people have previously engaged in nationalistic flame-baiting, and mods want to prevent that as much as possible.
- cinquemb 11y ago
  Well now that we're all a bit off topic, it also seems like some people have lived in Russia for some time and form opinions about a country that some people have felt the need to respond with their opinion. I can see why HN might not want to show such to public viewers to be protective of their image if people have never came across the brand before and spent enough time to get a feel for what goes on here… I'd also love to see the corpus on how HN classifies things as "nationalistic flame-baiting", but I as of now, I suspect it's usually ad-hoc indirect self-referencing ("I saw this user said something like $__non_exact_quote_of_what_some_user_has_said_ [which mostly reflects my personal bias/interpretation that may or may not be consistent over time, that may or may not be shared by others, but to the degree of which, I cannot say because I have no stats to show you]") to other instances where a mod has stepped in and labeled something as such. I think that would be a much powerful citation… but yeah, not my forum, not my rules, HN/YC and their agents/mods are free to be transparent (and to the degree of which is defined as being transparent) as they like.

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As we can all see by this thread, the human biases/incentives that go into being a moderator of a forum can be quite suspect… and automated attempts that aren't

by cinquemb 11y ago

DanBC 11y ago
An alternative interpretation is that some people have previously engaged in nationalistic flame-baiting, and mods want to prevent that as much as possible.
- cinquemb 11y ago
  Well now that we're all a bit off topic, it also seems like some people have lived in Russia for some time and form opinions about a country that some people have felt the need to respond with their opinion. I can see why HN might not want to show such to public viewers to be protective of their image if people have never came across the brand before and spent enough time to get a feel for what goes on here… I'd also love to see the corpus on how HN classifies things as "nationalistic flame-baiting", but I as of now, I suspect it's usually ad-hoc indirect self-referencing ("I saw this user said something like $__non_exact_quote_of_what_some_user_has_said_ [which mostly reflects my personal bias/interpretation that may or may not be consistent over time, that may or may not be shared by others, but to the degree of which, I cannot say because I have no stats to show you]") to other instances where a mod has stepped in and labeled something as such. I think that would be a much powerful citation… but yeah, not my forum, not my rules, HN/YC and their agents/mods are free to be transparent (and to the degree of which is defined as being transparent) as they like.