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Hi, I'm not sure if what you've posted is a copypasta, but did you read the post? I linked to the post so you can see that it's not flagged: https://news.ycombi

by ijpsud 7y ago

Hi, I'm not sure if what you've posted is a copypasta, but did you read the post? I linked to the post so you can see that it's not flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707365 It's a post with a link to theinformation.com which is quite reputable so far as I know. It is paywalled, but I don't think those are banned from HN. I also mentioned that it is not my post, but your point #3 is written as if it's mine. As I mentioned in the reply to the first commenter, it was on the home page (obviously, due to the 15 points in 30 minutes, as I mentioned), and then was gone when I went back to find it. Is there any way to ping a mod to see why this might have happened? I don't think I can just write @dang or /u/dang, right?

dylz 7y ago
I would be unsurprised if it was also just downvoted a lot because the article is not readable without login.
- ijpsud 7y ago
  If that were the case, wouldn't it have a low score? Instead of 17 votes? I regularly see theinformation.com posts highly upvoted on HN and as far as I know they're all paywalled. Also, it's not on the first 12 pages of the homepage, so there's basically no chance that this hypothesis could explain it, because it would have gotten down-voted to the second or at most third page, and then slowly drifted to later pages as the recent-ness component drags it down. Unless HN's algorithm is really different to Reddit's, that is.
- kick 7y ago
  The actual reasoning has been listed already (you were close!), but I figure I might as well chime in to clear up a misconception: Posts can't be downvoted, only comments.
dang 7y ago
Of course you can! Email us at hn@ycombinator.com. As I explained above, that would have been much better. The answer to your question was as simple as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22708065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22708065, but when people bring questions like this up in the threads I feel obliged to write an explanation from first principles.

by ijpsud 7y ago

dylz 7y ago

I would be unsurprised if it was also just downvoted a lot because the article is not readable without login.

ijpsud 7y ago
If that were the case, wouldn't it have a low score? Instead of 17 votes? I regularly see theinformation.com posts highly upvoted on HN and as far as I know they're all paywalled. Also, it's not on the first 12 pages of the homepage, so there's basically no chance that this hypothesis could explain it, because it would have gotten down-voted to the second or at most third page, and then slowly drifted to later pages as the recent-ness component drags it down. Unless HN's algorithm is really different to Reddit's, that is.
kick 7y ago
The actual reasoning has been listed already (you were close!), but I figure I might as well chime in to clear up a misconception: Posts can't be downvoted, only comments.

dang 7y ago

Of course you can! Email us at hn@ycombinator.com. As I explained above, that would have been much better. The answer to your question was as simple as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22708065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22708065, but when people bring questions like this up in the threads I feel obliged to write an explanation from first principles.