If "downweighted on HN" means that prior to user voting, HN starts articles from Quillette with a lower score, this really disappoints me. It's a professionall

If "downweighted on HN" means that prior to user voting, HN starts articles from Quillette with a lower score, this really disappoints me. It's a professionally curated and edited journalistic publication, and the pieces I read are generally calm, nuanced, and make some effort not to be mere outrage-bait. (more than I can say for our papers of record these days) The idea that one of the country's best CS programs is (or is considering) lowering its degree standards matters for us here on HN. This article is worthy and worth our consideration.