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It's interesting how on Hacker News, story about Google getting fined was censored and removed yet PR from Google is still on the front page. It's sad that bias
by Jerry2 9y ago
It's interesting how on Hacker News, story about Google getting fined was censored and removed yet PR from Google is still on the front page. It's sad that bias and censorship on here is so strong.
- cookiecaper 9y agoTake a page from Trump; let them think they're making fun of you, while they're actually spreading your gospel. Trump did this so successfully he actually became president, against all odds. Whether it comes through the Google PR machine or not, people are still getting the key message: Google has been fined for playing unfairly. Most people don't read past the headline, and defending against these allegations still just makes the allegations stickier in the minds of public; it strengthens the association between "Google" and "unfair" in the public's psyche.
- HerraBRE 9y agoWhy do you say it was censored and removed? It's dropped down to page two, but that's perfectly normal once something has been on the front page for a while.
- Ajedi32 9y agoIt's only been 5 hours since it was posted, and the story has ~450 upvotes. In contrast, I see another story on the front page right now that was posted 18 hours ago and only has ~250 upvotes.
- RandomBookmarks 9y agoIt could be the algorithm: Maybe the original EU story got many downvotes from HN users that work at Google?
- humanrebar 9y agoIs there a way to downvote stories? Maybe you mean it was flagged?
- polishTar 9y agoYou can't downvote posts
- mortehu 9y agoBut you can comment, and posts with many comments are penalized.
- gervase 9y agoA big factor of the ranking algorithm is related to the number of comments; as the number increases, the ranking of the article goes down. This is intended to penalize controversial articles that may result in flame wars. This article has <200 comments, while the other one has >400; this is likely a significant factor in the falling ranking, in addition to the age. I also believe that upvote velocity is weighted more heavily than upvote quantity, but I could be wrong there.
- kenjackson 9y agoThe comment algorithm seems backwards. I hope HN at least does sentiment analysis to see if the flavor of the comments tends toward being negative before downgrading the post.
- magila 9y agoThe HN mods routinely drop stories off the front page which they apparently deem overly political. I've seen many political stories instantly drop from the top 10 to page two.
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- quickben 9y agoWhy are you surprised? Just count front page Google related stories here on any random day, and you'll get the picture :)
- enraged_camel 9y agoI was thinking about this exact same thing. I first saw the story when I woke up this morning. Two hours later I was at the office, and the story was already on the second page despite having a massive number of votes and comments.
- majani 9y agoI wouldn't say censorship is at play. There have been analyses showing that Google is a favorite topic of HN users[1], and also there have been customer service scenarios that prove that there are a lot of Google employees on here. Those are probably the forces at work in this case. [1] http://blog.datadive.net/which-topics-get-the-upvote-on-hacker-news/ http://blog.datadive.net/which-topics-get-the-upvote-on-hack...