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This story was on the front page of Hacker News – but then disappeared. Did the original poster delete it or something else happen?

by jweir 2y ago

jweir 2y ago
Ah - all is clear ``` [flagged] [dead] Marc Andreessen Is a Maniac (gizmodo.com) ```
adrianmonk 2y ago
It's at the #10 position on my front page right now.
dang 2y ago
Looks like a moderator downweighted it, probably because it's a sensational-indignant article, which is not what HN is supposed to be for. Angry articles about how awful rich people or celebrities are a sure hit with upvoters, but their appeal does not come from intellectual curiosity, which is the organizing principle of this site (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20optimiz%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). So it's standard moderation practice to downweight them here; otherwise the front page would consist of little else. We make exceptions if an article has significant new information (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22significant%20new%20information%22%20by%3Adang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...) that can provide a basis for an intellectually curious conversation, but it doesn't look like that's the case here. Edit: it's also the case that users heavily flagged it, which has a similar effect. I'm not sure whether the moderation chicken or the user eggs were first in the downranking of this piece, but it doesn't matter much in the sense that both are the system functioning as usual.
- gopher_space 2y ago
  > their appeal does not come from intellectual curiosity Unless you're interested in human behavior and see finance as part of a natural process. From a biology perspective there's an obvious line of thinking around resource sequestration you can't really discuss in public, so I'm always interested in seeing the shape its eventual expression takes. The articles are also rage bait and I agree with the moderation fwiw. We aren't really here to square this particular circle.
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This story was on the front page of Hacker News – but then disappeared. Did the original poster delete it or something else happen?

by jweir 2y ago

This story was on the front page of Hacker News – but then disappeared. Did the original poster delete it or something else happen?

jweir 2y ago

Ah - all is clear ``` [flagged] [dead] Marc Andreessen Is a Maniac (gizmodo.com) ```

adrianmonk 2y ago

It's at the #10 position on my front page right now.

dang 2y ago

Looks like a moderator downweighted it, probably because it's a sensational-indignant article, which is not what HN is supposed to be for. Angry articles about how awful rich people or celebrities are a sure hit with upvoters, but their appeal does not come from intellectual curiosity, which is the organizing principle of this site (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20optimiz%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). So it's standard moderation practice to downweight them here; otherwise the front page would consist of little else. We make exceptions if an article has significant new information (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22significant%20new%20information%22%20by%3Adang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...) that can provide a basis for an intellectually curious conversation, but it doesn't look like that's the case here. Edit: it's also the case that users heavily flagged it, which has a similar effect. I'm not sure whether the moderation chicken or the user eggs were first in the downranking of this piece, but it doesn't matter much in the sense that both are the system functioning as usual.

gopher_space 2y ago
> their appeal does not come from intellectual curiosity Unless you're interested in human behavior and see finance as part of a natural process. From a biology perspective there's an obvious line of thinking around resource sequestration you can't really discuss in public, so I'm always interested in seeing the shape its eventual expression takes. The articles are also rage bait and I agree with the moderation fwiw. We aren't really here to square this particular circle.

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