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The mods sometimes put posts in a 'second-chance' pool if they think the post was high-quality but may have been overlooked. These posts get randomly placed som
by npilk 4y ago
The mods sometimes put posts in a 'second-chance' pool if they think the post was high-quality but may have been overlooked. These posts get randomly placed somewhere on the front page with the timestamp "reset". [0]
I have a sneaking suspicion that this manual curation is more common than we realize and could be the main reason for HN's high quality.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
- Pakdef 4y ago> I have a sneaking suspicion that this manual curation is more common than we realize and could be the main reason for HN's high quality. They manipulate submissions and comments A LOT... sometimes they write a comment about their modifications but often do not (maybe when they think it will go unnoticed?).