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This appears to have been aggressively flagged since it's suddenly dropped from the front page to the 6th page in a matter of minutes and has a better point to
by tomxor 9y ago
This appears to have been aggressively flagged since it's suddenly dropped from the front page to the 6th page in a matter of minutes and has a better point to age ratio than most all above it...
Could anyone explain why? it looks highly suspicious to me. I understand that many are protective over Apple products but putting that asside, this an objective and valid warning to people looking to buy this otherwise popular computer.
- madeofpalk 9y agoApple (among others) posts are automatically “downmodded”. They require a much higher score to remain on the front page
- tomxor 9y agoAre you suggesting that Apple have automated bots attempt to censor hacker news? or is this more of an official thing where any posts regarding Apple are weighted down due to being considered too mainstream? or is it just a sensitive topic to many people? I can easily imagine any but I don't know which is more likely.
- madeofpalk 9y agoNo, it’s a Hacker News ‘feautre’. There are a number of topics/keywords that analysis found were being automatically weighted down for, I guess, generally being low quality and spammy, or rarely leading to useful discussions. I guess the intent is that the proper and good posts should “work harder” to push up through the weight. I tried searching for some links to cooborate it, but I wasn’t able to find anything quickly on my phone.
- tomduncalf 9y agoYeah I wondered this myself, the same happened to a repost of it! Hopefully we can get it back on the front page, I really want to draw attention to this issue for all of us owners