> On HN, we've always gone by article quality, not site quality: I don't think that's true, per the word of PG himself. HN has had site blacklisting and downra

> On HN, we've always gone by article quality, not site quality: I don't think that's true, per the word of PG himself. HN has had site blacklisting and downranking. "Some submissions get automatically penalized based on the title, and others get penalized based on the domain. I observed that many websites appear to automatically get a penalty of .25 to .8: arstechnica.com, businessinsider.com, easypost.com, github.com, imgur.com, medium.com, quora.com, qz.com, reddit.com, rt.com, stackexchange.com, theguardian.com, theregister.com, theverge.com, torrentfreak.com, youtube.com." It probably still does. (yes I know you're mod) (PG) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044 https://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html https://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-reall... https://www.righto.com/2009/06/how-does-newsyc-ranking-work.html https://www.righto.com/2009/06/how-does-newsyc-ranking-work....