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I guess I shouldn't have expected everyone to already know this, or to just take my word for it. [Edit] HN mod DanG has explicitly stated that mods "routinely d
by j_s 10y ago
I guess I shouldn't have expected everyone to already know this, or to just take my word for it. [Edit] HN mod DanG has explicitly stated that mods "routinely downweight" meta-HN posts, which I chose to phrase as "they are usually flagged by the moderators".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13858395 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13858395
When HN itself is involved it's a little bit different, because the hypnotic power of all things meta causes HN upvoters to go into an upvoting trance.
- pvg 10y agoI know this and the story that post is about got flagged right off the front page before moderators as much as looked at it as is the case for pretty much anything that instadrops off the front page.