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I'm not insinuating that YC moderation is at fault here. Unfortunately, there are plenty of others who'd be incentivized to flag an article in such a coordinate

I'm not insinuating that YC moderation is at fault here. Unfortunately, there are plenty of others who'd be incentivized to flag an article in such a coordinated manner.

dang 7y ago
That definitely wasn't the case with that submission. Airbnb threads, by the way, invariably turn into the same generic debate about Airbnb that some people seem to want to have over and over again: "I had a bad experience" vs. "I had a good experience". (Variations: "Airbnb ruined my neighborhood." "They rented the place next door to noisy people." And so on.) Just look at the comments in this thread. HN moderators are trained to downweight such repetition, because it doesn't serve curiosity, which is what this site exists for. For some reason, Airbnb is one of the topics that people (or rather, commenters inclined to post in such threads) seem unable to bring curiosity to.
- hkmurakami 7y ago
  dang, this just went from front page to #347 in the last 10 minutes. I agree that this thread has a lot of "bad experience / good experience" posts that aren't informative or productive (I'm actually amazed at how much worse this thread is compared to the previous one), but if HN Mods are behind this latest downweighting, then I don't think you've given it enough time to have substantive comments (ex: the fate of longtime employees' options which are going to hit the 10 year expiration) be posted given that it's only been on the front page for a brief amount of time. If Mods aren't responsible for this precipitous drop (which would be my instinct), then that's another problem all together. Anyways, as a fellow mod on a different site, thanks for your team's work. I know it's not easy.
- 93po 7y ago
  Wish the anti-Musk and anti-Assange astroturfing would also get downweighted for being repetitive
  - dang 7y ago
    Everyone feels that there's too much of what they don't like and not enough of what they do. People with opposite Muskian and Assangian tastes to yours have the inverted image of what there's too much of. (Btw, please don't play the 'astroturfing' card unless there's hard evidence. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Disliking things on HN is not evidence, it's universal.)

I'm not insinuating that YC moderation is at fault here. Unfortunately, there are plenty of others who'd be incentivized to flag an article in such a coordinated manner.

dang 7y ago

That definitely wasn't the case with that submission. Airbnb threads, by the way, invariably turn into the same generic debate about Airbnb that some people seem to want to have over and over again: "I had a bad experience" vs. "I had a good experience". (Variations: "Airbnb ruined my neighborhood." "They rented the place next door to noisy people." And so on.) Just look at the comments in this thread. HN moderators are trained to downweight such repetition, because it doesn't serve curiosity, which is what this site exists for. For some reason, Airbnb is one of the topics that people (or rather, commenters inclined to post in such threads) seem unable to bring curiosity to.

hkmurakami 7y ago
dang, this just went from front page to #347 in the last 10 minutes. I agree that this thread has a lot of "bad experience / good experience" posts that aren't informative or productive (I'm actually amazed at how much worse this thread is compared to the previous one), but if HN Mods are behind this latest downweighting, then I don't think you've given it enough time to have substantive comments (ex: the fate of longtime employees' options which are going to hit the 10 year expiration) be posted given that it's only been on the front page for a brief amount of time. If Mods aren't responsible for this precipitous drop (which would be my instinct), then that's another problem all together. Anyways, as a fellow mod on a different site, thanks for your team's work. I know it's not easy.
93po 7y ago
Wish the anti-Musk and anti-Assange astroturfing would also get downweighted for being repetitive
- dang 7y ago
  Everyone feels that there's too much of what they don't like and not enough of what they do. People with opposite Muskian and Assangian tastes to yours have the inverted image of what there's too much of. (Btw, please don't play the 'astroturfing' card unless there's hard evidence. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Disliking things on HN is not evidence, it's universal.)