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Ask HN: Are posts about Reddit actively suppressed?
I've noticed that several posts about Reddit get many upvotes but never make it to the front page anymore or get pushed down immediately. Looks like there is an auto-suppression in place.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36412619
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36421483
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36423313
- brucethemoose2 3y agoYeah, trending topics are sometimes downranked to prevent front page spam. This is apparently a known thing HN does.
- strangattractor 3y agoOf course they aren ... muffle muffle ... silence
- gardnr 3y agoI noticed some of the highly voted posts are not making it to the front page of HN. 36412619 is by a new user. I figured that may have had something to do with it.
- MicropenisMike 3y agoYes, that was my assumption as well. I was frustrated to see it reach a high of rank 33 and not make the front page. I later submitted a news article which got flagged despite having additional information. The same issue was met by the third link in this post .
- Havoc 3y agoI think it is organic - specifically feels more like fatigue to me. Couple of people are still interested in the topic, but many are over it so it gets replaced by other trending things fast
- dredmorbius 3y agoUpdate / correction: There is a penalty on Reddit topics: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36435312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36435312> ================================================================================ Previously: HN's policy is that there is less official (mod-based) moderation where a YC connection exists, a point dang reiterated specifically concerning Reddit within the past week: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36366909 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36366909> There have been a tremendous number of Reddit submissions in the past month (621 as I write this), as compared with 2,629 in the past year, which puts the preceding 11 months at a mean of 182 Reddit submissions. Keep in mind that front page space is highly limited on HN. There are 30 slots per day (though there's some intra-day movement on and off those), or 10,950 front page stories per year. I've been in the process of gathering and running some statistics and analysis of historic Reddit front-page activity, and even as of a few days ago, pro-rated for the year (and ignoring the fact that the floodgates really only opened just over three weeks ago: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36141083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36141083>), 2023 is trending to exceed the high-water mark for front-page Reddit mentions set in 2012, of 46.[1] (It takes about a half hour for me to update stats, I'll reply with current numbers when I have them.) Mostly, I suspect it's a matter of the front page being hard to land, probably combined with fatigue on the topic. And I'm not without a horse in this race as I've just submitted an item of my own on the subject. Update: Here's the mentions-by-years breakdown, as of 2023-6-21: 2007 41 2008 31 2009 15 2010 44 2011 41 2012 46 2013 28 2014 27 2015 27 2016 19 2017 15 2018 15 2019 12 2020 24 2021 12 2022 13 2023 29 Given that we're 47% of the way through 2023, the pro-rated tally for the year would be about 62 FP stories, well above not only the recent trend (teens to twenties) but 134% of the all-time peak in 2012. ________________________________ Notes: 1. Earlier analysis from 8 days ago, here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36321773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36321773>