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Why was this submission suddenly so heavily penalized by the mod(s)?
by Tenoke 7y ago
Why was this submission suddenly so heavily penalized by the mod(s)?
- ctoth 7y agoAlso curious about this.
- codingslave 7y agoI noticed this as well. Censorship...
- akamaka 7y agoUsers can press the “flag” button for content that is off-topic. I flagged this article because it is an unreviewed pre-print paper that has been rushed out by its authors, who clearly have not investigated any of the most obvious follow-up questions, such as “what is the probability of this occurring naturally?”
- mcantelon 7y ago>who clearly have not investigated any of the most obvious follow-up questions, such as “what is the probability of this occurring naturally?” If it's true then the cause is an entirely different question.
- ctoth 7y agoOkay so we definitely need to flag any machine learning papers from Arxiv because hey preprint. Further, do you assume that other members cannot read the preprint warning and decide for themselves? This strikes me as some sort of bizarre way to patronize the entire community.
- akamaka 7y agoI’m not a biologist, so I’m really not interested in this type of paper, and I expressed my opinion through the voting mechanism. Also, there are thousands of researchers studying this new virus. If this turns out to be an important finding, I can wait until it is validated. At this point, this paper looks poor quality, and it was a waste of time for me to click on it and read it.
- Tenoke 7y agoThere are no post downvotes on HN for a reason (or at least normal users dont have them) - flag doesn't and shouldn't mean the same thing as a downvote.
- akamaka 7y agoI don’t flag things often, as one might downvote a comment they disagree with. The flag mechanism is for off-topic or spam content, and I consider this way off-topic for this site. There have already been hundreds of published articles about this virus, and if I was interested in seeing them, I would use a site like PubMed to see them.
- ngcc_hk 7y agoNeed summary otherwise bad coin drive away good coins. What are the good one?
- himinlomax 7y ago> it is an unreviewed pre-print Any relevant work on nCoV will be unreviewed at this point.
- stock_toaster 7y agoCould be automod stuff. I have read a few hypothesis a couple of times about things that can trigger automodding, like many upvotes but few comments, or lots of deeply nested comments very quickly.
- proc0 7y agohttps://media.giphy.com/media/lSmgsPG0mGfemqtCv3/giphy.gif https://media.giphy.com/media/lSmgsPG0mGfemqtCv3/giphy.gif
- bibinou 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > In Submissions > Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.
- Tenoke 7y agoIn which case they just change the title normally.. rather than penalizing it heavier than any other penalized post Ive noticed recently.
- Tenoke 7y agoFollow-up - this seems to be happening to other, maybe all 2019-nCoV posts, I just hadn't noticed before.
- dang 7y agoI answered this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22206176 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22206176