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Previous topics: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12790840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12790840 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12791672

Previous topics: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12790840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12790840 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12791672 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12791672 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12791158 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12791158 For those interested, I observed the evolution of the rank of the first topic: https://gist.github.com/ggregoire/a759868f3bc046f9b654a7053be2f4e7 https://gist.github.com/ggregoire/a759868f3bc046f9b654a7053b...

jjawssd 10y ago
Great detective work. Silenced in 3...2...1...
- madeofpalk 10y ago
  It's well understood that certain sites or keywords in submissions result in a a ranking penalty. My guess is that due to the poor noise/signal ratio with topics such as 'Apple' this ensures that anything in this topic has to 'work harder' and be genuinely interesting to each the HN front page. While I'm personally interested in this particular submission, I don't think 'Apple rumours and gossip' this fits on Hacker News.
ilostmykeys 10y ago
HN ranking is a stupid algorithm (not simply "dumb" but demonstrably stupid) Also, for a site that promotes new startups and technologies etc outsourcing censorship to the crowd promotes majority-approved views, which is, once again, stupid, not simply dumb.
sctb 10y ago
That story tripped the software flamewar detector, which we've now turned off.
- nikcub 10y ago
  Whatever it did, it had the unintended effect of producing a desired result: the re-blogged content on Macrumors was buried in favor of the original source story. Switch it back on :)
  - sctb 10y ago
    We certainly will update the link to the original. Do you have any evidence to suggest that's the 512pixels article?
    - nikcub 10y ago
      That's a good point - I just assumed the 512pixels article was the original since it was shared first widely on Twitter, but only just noticed that Macrumors doesn't reference or credit it. It's possible they both discovered and posted about it today.
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maxerickson 10y ago
We need a HN censorship conspiracy image generator, a la http://boingboing.net/2016/10/22/alt-right-conspiracy-image-gen.html http://boingboing.net/2016/10/22/alt-right-conspiracy-image-...

jjawssd 10y ago

Great detective work. Silenced in 3...2...1...

madeofpalk 10y ago
It's well understood that certain sites or keywords in submissions result in a a ranking penalty. My guess is that due to the poor noise/signal ratio with topics such as 'Apple' this ensures that anything in this topic has to 'work harder' and be genuinely interesting to each the HN front page. While I'm personally interested in this particular submission, I don't think 'Apple rumours and gossip' this fits on Hacker News.

ilostmykeys 10y ago

HN ranking is a stupid algorithm (not simply "dumb" but demonstrably stupid) Also, for a site that promotes new startups and technologies etc outsourcing censorship to the crowd promotes majority-approved views, which is, once again, stupid, not simply dumb.

sctb 10y ago

That story tripped the software flamewar detector, which we've now turned off.

nikcub 10y ago
Whatever it did, it had the unintended effect of producing a desired result: the re-blogged content on Macrumors was buried in favor of the original source story. Switch it back on :)
- sctb 10y ago
  We certainly will update the link to the original. Do you have any evidence to suggest that's the 512pixels article?
  - nikcub 10y ago
    That's a good point - I just assumed the 512pixels article was the original since it was shared first widely on Twitter, but only just noticed that Macrumors doesn't reference or credit it. It's possible they both discovered and posted about it today.

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maxerickson 10y ago

We need a HN censorship conspiracy image generator, a la http://boingboing.net/2016/10/22/alt-right-conspiracy-image-gen.html http://boingboing.net/2016/10/22/alt-right-conspiracy-image-...