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> t normally only happens to comments after they have been flagged or downvoted Incorrect, this has happened to me before and while being up about 10 points an
by aliqot 4y ago
> t normally only happens to comments after they have been flagged or downvoted
Incorrect, this has happened to me before and while being up about 10 points and not flagged I still got folded. I am perceiving a change in HN moderation, like Dang's starting to act different since the site's been growing, and I noticed particularly when he's on late at night, HN behaves a little differently.
I haven't devised a test for this particular late-night hypothesis, but you see the behavior enough times and you start to wonder, maybe I should be testing this.
- dang 4y agoBy all means do test these things. I think you'll find in the majority of cases that the patterns are illusory. People routinely make up explanations for what they think they're perceiving—and to be fair, it's almost impossible not to—but those are almost all false. If you did find a real pattern, it would be interesting to know about.