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If it went from being on the 1st page straight to the 3rd page (say from #15 to #75 or so), I believe that is an admin kill that any YC founder can do. They don
by trotsky 15y ago
If it went from being on the 1st page straight to the 3rd page (say from #15 to #75 or so), I believe that is an admin kill that any YC founder can do. They don't seem to have particular standards for doing them. If it dropped significantly less than that (say from #15 to #35 or such) that would probably be the net effect of a number of normal users flagging the post. This Ask HN post will probably end up being admin killed (or whatever the right term is) as well, they don't seem to particularly enjoy discussion of what's behind the curtain.
- mraxilus 15y agoReally? I thought everyone here was at the knowledge level where we consider secrecy and security through obscurity to be frown upon.
- kls 15y agoI think it is more like Google in this case, where the algorithms have to be protected to ensure the quality of the site does not decline. They allow enough information so that people understand, but no enough that the process can be deduced. Gaming HN for front page can be a significant traffic increase hence there is a big reward in figuring out how to do it. While everyone appreciated open and honest, their appreciation does not extend past quality, if the site where continually gamed no one would stick around. Thus quality has to trump an implied open policy.
- mikecane 15y agoThe ten points bothers me. How, for example, did this garner ten points? http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Shodiix http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Shodiix I find it really strange that in the space of an hour, three posts get ten points and are all killed. The one I point to is particularly troubling because I have never seen something like that ever get ten points here. And the person who posted that left a "?" as a comment on my submission and it was then killed.