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My best guess is that the slightly quicker drop-off was caused by the number of comments exceeding the number of upvotes triggering the "flame war" detector. T
by shkkmo 7y ago
My best guess is that the slightly quicker drop-off was caused by the number of comments exceeding the number of upvotes triggering the "flame war" detector.
There are a number of posts that talk about how HN ranking works, here are the few I could find:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799854
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9426040 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9426040
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16018430 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16018430
- gitgud 7y agoInteresting, I thought there was a flame war detector on here. I've seen it happen to a few extremely polarising articles before. Is there a way to view hacker news in "flame war" mode?
- ryacko 7y agoGo to page 2 of the home page.
- MichaelMoser123 7y agoWow, that means HN is still running in Arc, didn't know that.
- shkkmo 7y agoI have no idea if it still is, though I suspect so. It definitely was running on a modified version of Arc several years ago when the last public discussion I could find with HN staff took place.
- mordant 7y agoMy best guess is that the slightly quicker drop-off is because he happens to be Jewish, and so the mods are sensitive to the merest hint of a possibility of being accused of anti-Semitism.
- aliswe 7y agoDon't mean to say you're necessarily incorrect (don't know), but I think that kind of claim will need some basis in order not to be seen as a baseless accusation.