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This was the top comment by a long shot and is all of a sudden way down the bottom... hmmmmmm.
by gfosco 7y ago
This was the top comment by a long shot and is all of a sudden way down the bottom... hmmmmmm.
- malvosenior 7y agoIt's one of my highest upvoted comments ever with 250 points. Not sure why it dropped to the bottom so fast.
- gfosco 7y agoIt immediately went from #1 to like #15 behind comments that obviously do not have a lot of votes. Take a guess why. HN fuckery afoot as usual.
- malvosenior 7y agoIt's just more signal not to use whatever they end up producing. Whether it was an astroturf campaign or they used personal connections to get HN to re-rank things, it doesn't speak well to transparency, honesty or being customer-centric. I think my original comment was a very valid criticism of vaporware and vanity blog posts used in lieu of actual product information. Trying to sweep that under the rug is not a good look.
- mkl 7y agoThere's a strong recency component to the comment ordering. New comments get a boost so they are visible enough to get upvotes if they deserve them, and over time the order settles.
- dang 7y agoWe downweight bilious comments, especially at the top of threads. Why? Because the internet tendency is to make everything ill-tempered, peevish, and gross. The spirit of this site is curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and for that to have breathing space, there needs to be an active counterweight. The main thing to understand is that it's a global optimization, not something stupid like supporting particular PR campaigns.
- gfosco 7y agoThat's very fair and I apologize for the snark.