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High comment rates on a recently posted story will weigh the story down. This is by design, and the quality of comments presently on this story does much to dem
by throwanem 3y ago
High comment rates on a recently posted story will weigh the story down. This is by design, and the quality of comments presently on this story does much to demonstrate the reasoning behind that choice.
Most likely the story will be reposted or "second chance" resurrected in the morning, when all the grownups are awake and not just those of us having a touch of insomnia.
- falsandtru 3y ago[flagged]
- throwanem 3y agoNo, HN has worked this way since long before dang was running it; I believe pg implemented the feature. It's a good feature, in that it tends to bury threads that bring much more heat than light.
- falsandtru 3y agoNo, the presence of the function is not evidence that something is due to that function or the absence of other functions. Many people blindly believe only the speculations that support them and it is unfortunate that much easy confirmation bias believing this misunderstanding has also been observed here due to my not explaining it right away.
- seba_dos1 3y agoTimezones are a thing. It's noon now and it was already morning when you posted this.
- saalweachter 3y agoSometimes when there is an inane story floating around on page one/two, I'll comment on it without up voting; its basically like a downvote as far as the algorithm is concerned. Meta comments about how the story is ranking or explaining the ranking algorithm to people complaining about how the story is ranking are a great subject for an empty comment.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoare we reading through the same set of comments? I see nothing wrong with people speculating over something like this.
- throwanem 3y agoThe lack of information renders such speculation necessarily vacuous, and it quickly degrades into dueling assertions of worldviews. There are lots of websites where that sort of thing runs unchecked. To the extent this isn't one, that's one of the reasons I prefer this one.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoWe do have information. the guy is a whistleblower, went to court day 1, missed court day 2, and was found dead in his vehicle of unnatural causes. attaching the adjective vacuous doesn't actually strengthen your point.
- throwanem 3y agoLeaving out "self-inflicted" obliterates yours.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago[flagged]
- throwanem 3y agoEnough at least to reserve substantive comment until I have enough sense of what I'd be talking about to have something worthwhile to say. Takes all kinds to make a world, though.