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Afaik there is a mechanism to remove flame bait articles. If a link gets too many comments too quickly, it gets removed.
by qznc 10y ago
Afaik there is a mechanism to remove flame bait articles. If a link gets too many comments too quickly, it gets removed.
- turc1656 10y agoIf that's true, that seems like the sort of thing that would lead to a ton of false positives getting flagged for removal. I'm sure big news events like the Wikileaks Vault7 release would generate lots of comments. Doing a quick search on HN, I see the top posts related to Vault7 have <15 points and no more than single digit comments. I find this worrisome. Vault7 is the type of thing that I would expect to generate significant discussion here.
- jsnell 10y agoIt's been covered to death here. There were at least half a dozen posts on that in the last week that made over 200 points (the main one at 2697). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13810015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13810015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13824032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13824032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13844389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13844389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13811914 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13811914 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13813160 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13813160 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13840544 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13840544