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Interesting that the moderators found it important to remove the "YC partner" part from the submission. It also seems the submission is getting less exposure th
by eis 10y ago
Interesting that the moderators found it important to remove the "YC partner" part from the submission. It also seems the submission is getting less exposure than other submissions even though it's newer and has more upvotes.
For example this submission has 349 points and was submitted 6 hours ago and has rank 17 while "Halite: An AI Programming Challenge" has 158 points and was submitted 12 hours ago and is rank 16. The Leonard Cohen post has just a bit more upvotes and was submitted also 6 hours ago and is rank 2. "Island generator was also submitted at the same time and with just barely over 100 upvotes is rank 7.
Can some mod please give some insight into this? I'm gonna give HN the benefit of the doubt, probably some invisible factors playing into it but the ranking plus the editing could look a bit like the story is getting burried.
- quarterto 10y agoPost with more comments than upvotes are penalised as a proxy for controversiality (remember HN doesn't have downvotes for posts)
- midgetjones 10y agoYou'll just get the line that HN readers don't like to talk politics so it was flagged into oblivion.