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If it wasn't upvoted it wouldn't make it to the front page.
by ralusek 8y ago
If it wasn't upvoted it wouldn't make it to the front page.
- jacquesm 8y agoJust about anything with 'Rust' in the title makes it to the front page.
- kibwen 8y agoNote that HN's ranking algorithm also rapidly sinks things off the front page whose titles contain common keywords like "Rust", "Go", "Apple", etc.
- sctb 8y agoThat's an interesting observation, but not true! As far as stories like this go, we do penalize minor release announcements across the board (unless there's something there that gratifies intellectual curiosity), but that's done manually.
- kibwen 8y agoInteresting, thanks for the insight. :)
- rat9988 8y agoThe argument is flawed because the system doesn't ask for the majority's opinion. I consider minor releases just noise personally.
- hu3 8y agoYep. To put it simply: it would be quite different if every user had a downvote button available.