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This non-crypto topic from 7 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33674562 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33674562

r721 4y ago
I wrote a reply for your other comment which is now flagged (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33678566 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33678566), so posting it here: >despite being littered with comments that were flagged/unflagged I don't think that's a factor affecting ranking - big amount of user flags (for the whole thread) and "flame-war detector" ("when the number of comments on a submission exceeds its score") do affect ranking negatively though, so I guess dang manually removed downranking factors for that thread.
- eganist 4y ago
  > I don't think that's a factor affecting ranking - big amount of user flags (for the whole thread) and "flame-war detector" ("when the number of comments on a submission exceeds its score") do affect ranking negatively though, so I guess dang manually removed downranking factors for that thread. It's not just dang modding anymore (citation: an email to me on Nov. 4), as I understand it. So it sounds like someone else made that call if that's what happened. The majority of HN's rules were violated repeatedly all over that thread, including the submission itself - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. But the problem is that rules also exist around meta-discussion of HN's own discussion quality, and it's a poor experience when discussion quality is slipping if there's not also an avenue to reasonably meta-discuss why that's the case, either as a consequence of how the platform is operating or as an outcome of society's direction in a broader sense.
bakugo 4y ago
I don't see why anyone would expect a topic such as this to have particularly high quality comments when the issue being discussed is itself extremely anti-intellectual. That said, are there any comments in particular that you think step out of line, or is it most of them?
- eganist 4y ago
  Most of them. Especially the deeper you go into More-land, the more deads you'll see. like I said, surprised this lasted as long as it did. This thread should've been dead before even landing on the front page.
antifa 4y ago
Becoming a woman is not the path for me. But it's so wild how much of this website is pro-status quo, anti-bio-hacking, anti-personal freedom on this topic. And especially anti-intellectual and anti-curious on the topic, too. Way too much culture war leaking in from meatspace.

r721 4y ago

I wrote a reply for your other comment which is now flagged (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33678566 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33678566), so posting it here: >despite being littered with comments that were flagged/unflagged I don't think that's a factor affecting ranking - big amount of user flags (for the whole thread) and "flame-war detector" ("when the number of comments on a submission exceeds its score") do affect ranking negatively though, so I guess dang manually removed downranking factors for that thread.

eganist 4y ago
> I don't think that's a factor affecting ranking - big amount of user flags (for the whole thread) and "flame-war detector" ("when the number of comments on a submission exceeds its score") do affect ranking negatively though, so I guess dang manually removed downranking factors for that thread. It's not just dang modding anymore (citation: an email to me on Nov. 4), as I understand it. So it sounds like someone else made that call if that's what happened. The majority of HN's rules were violated repeatedly all over that thread, including the submission itself - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. But the problem is that rules also exist around meta-discussion of HN's own discussion quality, and it's a poor experience when discussion quality is slipping if there's not also an avenue to reasonably meta-discuss why that's the case, either as a consequence of how the platform is operating or as an outcome of society's direction in a broader sense.

bakugo 4y ago

I don't see why anyone would expect a topic such as this to have particularly high quality comments when the issue being discussed is itself extremely anti-intellectual. That said, are there any comments in particular that you think step out of line, or is it most of them?

eganist 4y ago
Most of them. Especially the deeper you go into More-land, the more deads you'll see. like I said, surprised this lasted as long as it did. This thread should've been dead before even landing on the front page.

antifa 4y ago

Becoming a woman is not the path for me. But it's so wild how much of this website is pro-status quo, anti-bio-hacking, anti-personal freedom on this topic. And especially anti-intellectual and anti-curious on the topic, too. Way too much culture war leaking in from meatspace.