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Meanwhile all the Elon Musk jet stories are disappearing fast from the front page. The main one with over 1k comments and points survived only 6 hours.

by 323 4y ago

timcederman 4y ago
I noticed that too - the one I clicked on was in the top 5, and minutes later it was on page 3.
- roflyear 4y ago
  https://www.ycombinator.com/future/elon/ https://www.ycombinator.com/future/elon/
dang 4y ago
I explained that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33992824 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33992824. In principle we would turn off the user flags and software penalties, but the thread quality is so wretched that I see no upside. I'm shocked, and I don't shock easily after 10 years of this.
- roflyear 4y ago
  How is discussing something related to tech destructive?
  - dang 4y ago
    Those two things are unrelated. Discussion that breaks the HN guidelines is destructive, whether or not it's tech related, because it pushes HN in the direction of going down in flames. Preventing that from happening is the #1 job we have. Arguably the default fate of internet forums is to eventually burn out and become scorched earth, but the idea of HN from the beginning has been to stave that off for as long as we can. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=stave%20off%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20scorched%20earth&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- DenisM 4y ago
  I’m similarly shocked. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such low lever of discourse here, and we have had some controversial topics. Almost makes me wish you penalized every single account that commented here. It would not be just, but it might stave off the flame out.
r721 4y ago
They are still discoverable via "Most active current discussions" list though: https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active

Meanwhile all the Elon Musk jet stories are disappearing fast from the front page. The main one with over 1k comments and points survived only 6 hours.

by 323 4y ago

Meanwhile all the Elon Musk jet stories are disappearing fast from the front page. The main one with over 1k comments and points survived only 6 hours.

timcederman 4y ago

I noticed that too - the one I clicked on was in the top 5, and minutes later it was on page 3.

roflyear 4y ago
https://www.ycombinator.com/future/elon/ https://www.ycombinator.com/future/elon/

dang 4y ago

I explained that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33992824 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33992824. In principle we would turn off the user flags and software penalties, but the thread quality is so wretched that I see no upside. I'm shocked, and I don't shock easily after 10 years of this.

roflyear 4y ago
How is discussing something related to tech destructive?
- dang 4y ago
  Those two things are unrelated. Discussion that breaks the HN guidelines is destructive, whether or not it's tech related, because it pushes HN in the direction of going down in flames. Preventing that from happening is the #1 job we have. Arguably the default fate of internet forums is to eventually burn out and become scorched earth, but the idea of HN from the beginning has been to stave that off for as long as we can. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=stave%20off%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20scorched%20earth&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
DenisM 4y ago
I’m similarly shocked. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such low lever of discourse here, and we have had some controversial topics. Almost makes me wish you penalized every single account that commented here. It would not be just, but it might stave off the flame out.

r721 4y ago

They are still discoverable via "Most active current discussions" list though: https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active