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Except these posts seem to regularly get taken down or flagged. This isn't even on the front page anymore it seems.
by 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 agoI'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 agoIt 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 agoHow does one programmatically detect a flamewar? :)
- dang 6y agoBy 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 agoThat'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.