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Are 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 weight
by tomxor 9y ago
Are 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.