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Everyone went against me on HN when I said it's dangerous of BBC to associate the Desantis event with Dabiri without evidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
by senttoschool 3y ago
Everyone went against me on HN when I said it's dangerous of BBC to associate the Desantis event with Dabiri without evidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36082410#36082475 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36082410#36082475
- Freedom2 3y agoI think what's most important is that "curious" discussion was generated out of your comment! Despite what you may think, I believe the discussion spawned out of it was a resounding success.
- sillysaurusx 3y agoThere’s a huge influx of new HN users. Like, a massive spike over the last few months. I don’t think it’s worth worrying about voting patterns until they’ve had time to steep in HN’s culture. I’ve noticed similar fluctuations in pretty much anything remotely controversial I’ve posted. The more alarming aspect was the shrillness of replies, which seem to generally go unchallenged. I don’t like the idea that people think HN is for loudness. But thankfully that seems to be a minor fluctuation. The sibling reply from Freedom2 is right too — your comment (other than the downvote complaints, which I know is hard to resist) generated some good discussion.
- 23B1 3y agoIs there some place where I can see the data that backs up this influx of users? I ask because I believe you because I’ve felt that way too recently, but I’d love to verify it.
- djbusby 3y agoUse the HN API and just pull all the users, it's got created date, then feed to your favorite BI tool.
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoHow many are bots being crafted into sockpuppet accounts to silence damaging information.
- remote_phone 3y agoYou can’t downvote until 500 karma so it doesn’t matter. HN has voting ring detection as well.
- djbusby 3y agoI regularly pull HN data from the API. Any idea what kind of pattern I should look for? Like? Old+low karma? Maybe I could use GPT to analyze someone comment history?
- sillysaurusx 3y agoSure is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34110321 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34110321 Hacker News Insight. I hope it’s a measurement error, because the spike is literally a J.
- soundsgoodtome 3y agoDunno. It does feel as if discourse on HN has become less thoughtful and more angry/Reddit-esque…
- SecretDreams 3y agoWell, there's a whole HN subreddit that exists solely to post HN threads and encourage redditors to visit HN for more discussion. It's still somewhat nascent, but with more high profile articles posted, you'll see more people coming over. Fortunately, the UI here is not good enough to probably hold redditor interest in the long term.
- rtkwe 3y agoDoes HN not still require a certain level of upvotes to get access to voting?
- DHPersonal 3y agoI’ve always only been able to upvote; I’m guessing that lurking means I’ve never gained enough upvotes to access anything else.
- rtkwe 3y agoYeah the FAQ seems like you can upvote but not downvote until you have a certain amount of karma. I don't remember when I unlocked the downvote.
- shusaku 3y ago[flagged]
- senttoschool 3y agoI could careless about the downvotes, Elon, or Dabiri. I care more about creating discussions around how the media creates narratives.
- dexteroids 3y agoFunny to pick 'media' as everybody creates narratives to further their own.