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The way HN is set up, having 500 comments would have contributed to that. The "flamewar detector" the mods sometimes mention seems to take comments/votes and co

by Macha 3y ago

The way HN is set up, having 500 comments would have contributed to that. The "flamewar detector" the mods sometimes mention seems to take comments/votes and comments/time into consideration then penalises threads.

throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Yep. The HN users see is highly curated. Mostly by algorithms, sometimes by humans.
- jpoijw 3y ago
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- dang 3y ago
  You're right. Here's 10 years' worth of me explaining that: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20hn%20curated%20site&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Brajeshwar 3y ago
Yes, this is correct from my observation, too. The comment-to-vote ratios go fast; up south, they will likely be out of the pages quickly. One might think that a post that falls off the homepage would linger on page 2 for a while, but it can be out of even the first 100 posts fast. I have stopped thinking about HN's algorithms and just let it do its job.