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Other stories make it too. Any stories on this topic often exit the frontpage due to how the algorithm works around political topics. This one about deportatio
by graeme 2y ago
Other stories make it too. Any stories on this topic often exit the frontpage due to how the algorithm works around political topics.
This one about deportations to veneuzuela got flagged, but was on the frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43381043 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43381043
Same with this story about a Lebanese professor from Brown who was deported: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43384730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43384730
They all reached the front page.
The top comment on the story about the canadian woman detained suggests the article was ALSO flagged, and must have been unflagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43411777 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43411777
It is a reasonable expectation that this article will also be flagged. If any political story gets popular and heated enough some people flag it.
Update: This thread itself has been flagged off the front page
- freehorse 2y agoThere is also the (male) French professor's story who attempted to enter US for a conference and was sent back because they searched his phone and found some criticism to trump's policies, not sure how close to the frontpage it made it but it is currently flagged [0]. I think one problem is that there are too many stories on more or less the same topic, but each of them has a bit different angle. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43418059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43418059
- steveBK123 2y agoEven this current thread seems to have gotten demoted out of front page. Clearly we are all just supposed to keep our heads down, be quiet, and work on LLMs for VC to get rich off of.
- Teever 2y agoIt's not any political story -- the site is definitely biased against certain kinds of political stories. People voraciously upvote and argue about California zoning laws or San Francisco drug policy here and the moderation staff encourages this. Or AI policies from the US federal government or the DMA from the EU. Or the SLS rocket. 'political' is just used as a euphemism for 'taboo' and there are many unspoken taboos about what is talked and not talked about here.
- graeme 2y agoI think the most likely case is users are less likely to flag those stories. Or, they're less likely to generate discussion that causes those stories to get flagged.
- Teever 2y agoWhen I use the term 'the site' I mean both the owners, moderators and users as a collective whole. There's a sort of unspoken symbiosis going on between the users who consistently flag certain kinds of stories for ideological purposes and the owners/moderators who are content to let them do that.