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It looks like Hacker News's clickbait filter messed up the title by removing the numeral “128” from the front.
by DerekL 7y ago
It looks like Hacker News's clickbait filter messed up the title by removing the numeral “128” from the front.
- loup-vaillant 7y agoAh, I bet the filter classified it as a list (128 ways to do crypto!), and put a penalty on the submission. How I know about the penalty? I spotted a 3 points submission today on the front page. This one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22171271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22171271 right now is on the main feed (3rd page), with only 3 points. This one here had to wait for its 5th point. (Or was it a time based penalty?) I understand the need for moderation, but such false positives are most frustrating. Though I suspect by now that the real problem is the sheer popularity of HN. Too many eyeballs attract too many submissions, it's become like spam filtering.