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If you notice "suspicious" voting activity or stories dropping off the front page faster than you believe is warranted, you should contact the mods via email (h

If you notice "suspicious" voting activity or stories dropping off the front page faster than you believe is warranted, you should contact the mods via email (hn@ycombinator.com) rather than speculating in the comments, as the guidelines request [1]. This specific story might have been new, but the broader topic of the safety and functionality of assisted and autonomous driving systems has been extensively discussed over multiple articles in the past couple of weeks, and it's inevitable that members of the community will start to tire of any topic that has had extensive coverage for a sustained period of time. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

simion314 9y ago
It would help to have some data to check my suspicions(I will check if there are some sites that track the stories and the votes patterns but not today ), anyway let's see what happens with the new video that reproduces the bug(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16742391#16742956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16742391#16742956)... now since this is similar to the other one I can see why won't be that engaging, most of what was said was already said on the first video posting. Edit: 15 minutes later , all Tesla posts are gone from the first page
- danso 9y ago
  I don't think there's a huge conspiracy. The Tesla crash had 2 different stories (the official blog post, plus separate news stories), 3 days ago: http://archive.is/4uQSR http://archive.is/4uQSR (snapshot of /best) And then yesterday, the Youtube video got 205 upvotes with 109 comments, which is pretty good exposure on the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16732436 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16732436 Yesterday, there was also this side story with NTSB that got 90 upvotes and 98 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16730286 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16730286 So Tesla stories today might be getting flagged because users feel they are incremental updates.
  - simion314 9y ago
    The first video that got 200 comments, some of the comments were made when the story was on first page, the rest were replies that also happened after the story was gone from the first page(the time coincides with US people starting getting up). It is just a felling/instinct I have and I don't want us both spend our energy on trying to figure it out, if the community votes in this way then we can't do anything about it, maybe having a page that pulls this kind of topics easy accessible would be interesting,.

simion314 9y ago

It would help to have some data to check my suspicions(I will check if there are some sites that track the stories and the votes patterns but not today ), anyway let's see what happens with the new video that reproduces the bug(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16742391#16742956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16742391#16742956)... now since this is similar to the other one I can see why won't be that engaging, most of what was said was already said on the first video posting. Edit: 15 minutes later , all Tesla posts are gone from the first page

danso 9y ago
I don't think there's a huge conspiracy. The Tesla crash had 2 different stories (the official blog post, plus separate news stories), 3 days ago: http://archive.is/4uQSR http://archive.is/4uQSR (snapshot of /best) And then yesterday, the Youtube video got 205 upvotes with 109 comments, which is pretty good exposure on the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16732436 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16732436 Yesterday, there was also this side story with NTSB that got 90 upvotes and 98 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16730286 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16730286 So Tesla stories today might be getting flagged because users feel they are incremental updates.
- simion314 9y ago
  The first video that got 200 comments, some of the comments were made when the story was on first page, the rest were replies that also happened after the story was gone from the first page(the time coincides with US people starting getting up). It is just a felling/instinct I have and I don't want us both spend our energy on trying to figure it out, if the community votes in this way then we can't do anything about it, maybe having a page that pulls this kind of topics easy accessible would be interesting,.