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I could have swore I saw this story float around a few days ago. I searched to see if it was in fact a re-post. I did a search of the url https://legalhistorym
by aphextim 7y ago
I could have swore I saw this story float around a few days ago. I searched to see if it was in fact a re-post.
I did a search of the url https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2018/08/17/a-jewish-womans-appeal-of-murder-in-thirteenth-century-england/ https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2018/08/17/a-jewish-woman... into the hackers news search and got this:
https://i.imgur.com/XyoqA83.png https://i.imgur.com/XyoqA83.png
I clicked on the 1 comment on the article from two days ago and it now says it was posted 2 hours ago and shows the comment from a few minutes ago.
https://i.imgur.com/Knfp1be.png https://i.imgur.com/Knfp1be.png
Is this normal for re-posts on HN? First time I've seen the date something was posted change upon clicking the comments, however I'm pretty new to this space so it may be a glitch in the matrix that is known.
- aphextim 7y agoSlight follow up, if you click on the person who posted this article it states they posted it 1 day ago. Which is it, 2 days, 1 day or 2 hours? #confused https://i.imgur.com/hxvgh3l.png https://i.imgur.com/hxvgh3l.png
- maxerickson 7y agoThe mods reset the timer on stories they like to give them another chance at wider attention/discussion.
- aphextim 7y ago10-4, thanks for the clarification.
- julienreszka 7y agoYou call them mods, I call them shills
- maxerickson 7y agoLife is dangerous out there on the hard edge.
- julienreszka 7y agoWhat do you mean?
- maxerickson 7y agoI was mocking the aggressive tone you used to issue a pathetic, insubstantial personal attack.
- julienreszka 7y agoDoes it look agressive? I guess it's a matter of interpretation. It's substantiated by a mod in a sibling comment, see for yourself.
- Aloha 7y agoIf they're shills, what are they shilling?
- homonculus1 7y agoThe quiet malleability of data on this site is disturbing. Titles, article links, and timestamps are all changed without notice on a regular basis. Older discussions become disorienting as their subjects are silently memory-holed and replaced. Users are shadowbanned and throttled for undesirable ideas. There is no written policy for any of this and you feel like you're crazy until you hear rumors from someone who talked to someone who emailed the internet hall monitors.
- dang 7y agoThat seems a little overwrought. None of this is secret and we answer questions about it all the time, every day.
- homonculus1 7y agoWhat is the full list of moderator actions that promote, remove, or change content on Hacker News which are not listed in the FAQ? Why are these actions not listed? Why is there no indicator when an instance of one of these actions has occurred?
- dang 7y agoWe don't maintain an encyclopedia of HN moderation for a bunch of reasons. One is that such a compendium would only be of interest to a small subset of users, and they are just the kind who would never be satisfied by it. There's a certain sort of moderation discussion in which, no matter how patiently you answer objections, your answers are never accepted and only spawn new objections. To engage is to participate in a denial-of-service on yourself, dancing ever faster to a piper who will never stop. It doesn't take long to learn what a mistake that is. It sucks energy, razes morale, and never works. The vast majority of HN users aren't like that. They find the site interesting, are grateful that we maintain it, and respond with happiness when we answer their questions. That's the population we're excited to serve. So our approach is to operate by the principles outlined in the site guidelines, spend most of our resources trying to make HN more interesting (or at least stave off its decline), and answer specific questions when they come up. Not because of sinister secrets, just because of basic resource management: it's the best use of our limited resources and the best way to manage the effects on ourselves so we don't burn out quite so quickly. It's fairly clear that the community is happy with this approach, because if it weren't, we'd be hearing about nothing else. Then there's the grousing sort of commenter who makes dark insinuations about moderator manipulation. There are actually fewer of those than it seems, because they tend to cycle through various accounts over the years. I think they have a role to play, too, and am happy to engage up to a point—but only as long as it feels like the discussion is useful for the general audience too.
- dang 7y agoStories we think the community might like. If we guess right, they get time on the front page; if we guess wrong they soon fall off.
- dang 7y agomaxerickson is right. For more see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774614. Sorry for the confusion; we haven't figured out a better way to do it.