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Just wondering behind-the-scenes, is a thread like that flagged or something... or did it just not hit the right metrics at the right time to float up on the fr
by geerlingguy 4y ago
Just wondering behind-the-scenes, is a thread like that flagged or something... or did it just not hit the right metrics at the right time to float up on the front page?
- dang 4y agoNot flagged, but that domain is downweighted, as are most major media/web sites on HN. The downweight is pretty carefully calibrated to allow the (hopefully) most interesting (or at least most upvoted) articles through, but then we get these weird outliers that stay underwater. I'm not so worried about a major news piece (someone else will just repost a different version of the story, as happened here), but sometimes there are really cool and interesting posts that get lots of upvotes and even comments without ever reaching escape velocity. It's a bit Rube Goldbergian but my thought is to have separate software watching for those, and maybe plugging them into the second-chance pool or something (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308).