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No, I am from EU, but not french. Maybe you are right, but this morning the first think I saw about the terror attack was on HN via Feedly, and I was very surp
by gonvaled 10y ago
No, I am from EU, but not french.
Maybe you are right, but this morning the first think I saw about the terror attack was on HN via Feedly, and I was very surprised to see that all articles were flagged, including one about Facebook activating a special crisis mode, which stroke me as strange since recently I have seen lots of politics around here.
- nl 10y agoThe majority of politics on HN is about tech or politics impact on tech, or new (and often quite strange!) economic theories and experiments. Do you know how the flagging system works? Normal users get the right to flag and/or vouch for stories periodically, after they have been on the site a while. The details of what stays on the front page isn't publicly known, but it is a combination of comments and upvotes vs flags vs vouches. So if there is a lot to say about a topic, it is more likely to stay on the front page. The Turkish attempted coup made the front page (which of course isn't US or Anglo-centric). I think that is mostly because it is an unfolding situation and people have new things to say about it. (I have flagging rights at the moment. I didn't flag it, but I rarely flag things.)