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Don't mods boost certain links they think are interesting?
by E-Reverance 5y ago
Don't mods boost certain links they think are interesting?
- gjsman-1000 5y agoIf so, they aren't transparent about it.
- dang 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
- akomtu 5y agoI like how the top comment is flagged+dead. It points out an obvious, but inconvenient truth: enough to get widespread approval and enough to get burnt at stake for that. It's like saying the earth is round in medieval ages.
- adjkant 5y agoNo, it says that a someone or a few people tried to attack and flag a post to death, and all their comments from others were also downvoted. Nothing says that this got "widespread approval". The top comment could be +0 -12 and it just means all the others are worse. Only an admin can know if any comment got upvotes. From watching this thread out of curiosity of why it was attacked so viciously, I saw every post go immediately down, no positive time. All this successfully did was attract a bunch of anti-vaxers, people pushing it, and a few stragglers who saw it before it was flagged.
- dang 5y agoThat is the second-chance pool, described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308. We didn't touch this one.