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Just adding for audience clarification and context: Techdirt is mostly about post-reporting analysis. They tend to come in when a story is a few days old and u
by WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
Just adding for audience clarification and context:
Techdirt is mostly about post-reporting analysis. They tend to come in when a story is a few days old and understanding has some percolation time.
We can get a differently ordered picture than in the instants after news has broken.
- dang 3y agoI'm sure that's true. From a HN moderation point of view though, the question is whether two articles about the same underlying story are different enough to support substantially different conversations. If not, then the resulting thread will be largely repetitive of the original, and repetition is one of the main things we're trying to reduce here. In the present case the answer is pretty clearly 'no', because the comments aren't reacting to the OP's specific analysis, they're just responding to the general topic. This is pretty much what we'd expect since that's mostly how internet comments work. That doesn't invalidate your point, it just means that unfortunately the 'nuanced analysis' article that comes later is usually going to get downweighted as a follow-up on HN when the 'hot news' version of the same story already had significant attention.