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Of course it is, but this doesn't make it ok for the moderators to skew the front page towards their own personal interests.
by bitcharmer 5y ago
Of course it is, but this doesn't make it ok for the moderators to skew the front page towards their own personal interests.
- sulam 5y agoHere you go, you can learn how the algorithm works yourself. https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-hacker-news-ranking-algorithm-works-1d9b0cf2c08d https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-hacker-news-ranking... Fair warning, it's written in Lisp.
- jjnoakes 5y agoDo you have evidence that the moderators are skewing things?
- capableweb 5y agoI don't agree that HN skews towards Lisp (more like towards Rust or whatever is fashionable today, but I digress), and love Lisp in general. But, how would one be able to provide any sort of evidence of this happening without being moderator yourself?
- jjnoakes 5y agoThat's the point though, isn't it? Why claim things that you can't provide evidence for?
- rightbyte 5y agoI think moderators can do some sort of repost/reset of the algo ranking to give a post a new chance. If the moderators are more or less like the readers, I guess it is no extra skew.
- erik_seaberg 5y agoI think it’s the user base that pg drew in since even before HN. There have been 22 Lisp stories with 10+ upvotes in a month, but only five Java stories and two C# stories. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=false&query=java&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa... Java’s slowly become an acceptable language for mixed-skill teams but I don’t think there’s a lot of exciting news about it at least until Project Loom finally lands. I don’t know what would put C# onto more teams’ radar now that they announced feature completeness on Linux.