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Hey Dang, HN mods! With the 300+ upvotes and active discussion still occurring at hour 7 since posting, care to explain how the algorithm has relegated this di
by tunap 9y ago
Hey Dang, HN mods!
With the 300+ upvotes and active discussion still occurring at hour 7 since posting, care to explain how the algorithm has relegated this discussion to the fourth page and is still dropping? Is the much less active, day old posting of a SF author's death more heavily weighted than an inconvenient topic that is important to several more factors of readers?
- grzm 9y agoYou can search HN for other comments from the mods regarding the algorithm, but the short answer is that ranking is not a simple, transparent algorithm, nor is it independent of mod input. Ranking is dependent on time, commenting rate, user upvotes and flags (which don't result in a '[flagged]' tag until a threshold is reached), as well as mod input. Too much commenting activity can trigger the "overheated discussion detector", which can push a post down. Given that this has 213 upvotes and 319 comments (at the time of this posting), I'd say the latter is likely, though it's hard to say. In my experience, the quickest, most reliable way to contact the mods is via the Contact link in the footer. You might want to try that as well if you're looking for an expedient response.
- tunap 9y agoThanks for response, grzm. Considering neither of Mozilla's recent gaffe postings appear in the 400+ 'recent' list today, I will forgo contributions to the site. Open info != cloistered nor censored. YC has interests to protect after all the market speak and spurious posturing is washed away. I will miss the less controversial content, but my clicks & data history seem to be my only vote that matters anymore.