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It feels like it was a relatively 'quiet' scuffle when it comes to Hn discussion. I hope this post gets discussed without being buried.
by storrgie 9y ago
It feels like it was a relatively 'quiet' scuffle when it comes to Hn discussion. I hope this post gets discussed without being buried.
- tajen 9y agoPrevious posts have been censored: They would appear in the most active list https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active and never be seen on the homepage.
- dang 9y agoYou can use the word 'censor' if you like but it's the normal action of user flags, software, and moderation and it works much the same way regardless of the story. This tends not to be so visible during turbulent periods, but what can you do. 'Google memo' stories have been on HN's front page. Many more have been flagged off it. That is understandable because they didn't contain significant new information. Quantity isn't the criterion here. Hot-topic discussions tend to all be the same, and the substantiveness quotient declines steeply under repetition. Many of the flagged stories have still been vigorously discussed (i.e. hundreds of comments each), so I wouldn't use the word 'censor' for those. The site goal isn't to hide them, it's to preserve the variety and substantiveness of the front page, which I believe is why most people come here.
- peoplewindow 9y agoThis thread has disappeared from the front page, but it doesn't say it's been flagged. What's up with that?
- dang 9y agoIt's there now; there's a certain amount of fluctuation as upvotes and flags come in. The [flagged] annotation only appears when flags exceed upvotes by a certain threshold. Story rank is affected by flags before that.
- peoplewindow 9y agoThanks for the explanation.
- wmil 9y agoThat's understandable. The admins don't want the story to dominate the front page so they limit the number of threads.