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Honestly, at this point I've found HN to be the best "Status Page" for this sort of thing. I came here first when I found issues and fiddling around with my cus

by atonse 6y ago

Honestly, at this point I've found HN to be the best "Status Page" for this sort of thing. I came here first when I found issues and fiddling around with my custom DNS lookup hierarchy didn't help. FiOS customer in DC Metro.

xhrpost 6y ago
Except these posts seem to regularly get taken down or flagged. This isn't even on the front page anymore it seems.
- someHnUser 6y ago
  I'm glad I'm not the only one noticing this. I could usually rely on HN to not be so heavily "filtered" for a lack of a better term but I have noticed the slide into a more controlled/gamed PR outlet.
- dang 6y ago
  It set off the flamewar detector. We monitor that list and eventually cancel the penalty for threads that aren't actual flamewars, but it takes a while. If anyone wants to make it faster, emailing hn@ycombinator.com is usually a forcing function. Edit: Also, posts without URLs get a downweight by default. I've turned that off too, and merged the other threads into this one, since it was the first one.
  - eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
    How does one programmatically detect a flamewar? :)
    - dang 6y ago
      By proxy, which is why there are false positives.
    - unoti 6y ago
      > How does one programmatically detect a flamewar? :) An NLP/Machine learning model would be a great way! Probably also taking in other features as input such as the number of comments per second, and how deeply nested those comments are. Let's build one!
  - Ansil849 6y ago
    > It set off the flamewar detector. Why? There do not appear to have been any posts remotely resembling a flamewar in the comments.
    - dang 6y ago
      That's answered in my sibling (well, cousin) comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25921757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25921757. It can't test for flamewars directly so it ends up guessing wrong sometimes.
eganist 6y ago
downdetector.com did well today. Front page showed a generalized web issue, and any one of the individual services' status pages showed it was geographically localized to the midatlantic and northeast US.
tyingq 6y ago
It would be interesting if someone could automate something to pick out HN outage discussions and make an HN driven "downdetector" page.
MattSayar 6y ago
Also checking /r/sysadmin and sorting by new

by atonse 6y ago

xhrpost 6y ago

Except these posts seem to regularly get taken down or flagged. This isn't even on the front page anymore it seems.

someHnUser 6y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one noticing this. I could usually rely on HN to not be so heavily "filtered" for a lack of a better term but I have noticed the slide into a more controlled/gamed PR outlet.
dang 6y ago
It set off the flamewar detector. We monitor that list and eventually cancel the penalty for threads that aren't actual flamewars, but it takes a while. If anyone wants to make it faster, emailing hn@ycombinator.com is usually a forcing function. Edit: Also, posts without URLs get a downweight by default. I've turned that off too, and merged the other threads into this one, since it was the first one.
- eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
  How does one programmatically detect a flamewar? :)
  - dang 6y ago
    By proxy, which is why there are false positives.
  - unoti 6y ago
    > How does one programmatically detect a flamewar? :) An NLP/Machine learning model would be a great way! Probably also taking in other features as input such as the number of comments per second, and how deeply nested those comments are. Let's build one!
- Ansil849 6y ago
  > It set off the flamewar detector. Why? There do not appear to have been any posts remotely resembling a flamewar in the comments.
  - dang 6y ago
    That's answered in my sibling (well, cousin) comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25921757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25921757. It can't test for flamewars directly so it ends up guessing wrong sometimes.

eganist 6y ago

downdetector.com did well today. Front page showed a generalized web issue, and any one of the individual services' status pages showed it was geographically localized to the midatlantic and northeast US.

tyingq 6y ago

It would be interesting if someone could automate something to pick out HN outage discussions and make an HN driven "downdetector" page.

MattSayar 6y ago

Also checking /r/sysadmin and sorting by new