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How then do you explain DF being #3 from 2007-2021 and #72 from 2021-2025?

• runjake 2y ago
  Don’t ask them. The only one who can give you a sure answer is @dang . My guess is that HN users flag the hell out of DF submissions for whatever reason, and that causes the so-called graylisting. But again only @dang can give you a straight answer. If you prefer email, Dan can be reached at hn@ycombinator.com. He seems like a friendly guy.
• owebmaster 2y ago
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  • jgruber 2y ago
    What exactly do you think my "tactics" were/are? I've only ever submitted one article of my own to Hacker News. This one.
    • owebmaster 2y ago
      the content in the blog is yours, no? So people posting things that would cause flame wars from your domain is still your responsibility? At some point people stop engaging to disagree and start to flag. Your karma doesn't reflect the score expected from the blogger behind the top #3 website of HN. This should tell us something. Supporting a monopoly like Apple will sure attract a lot of detractors in a forum named "hacker news". The same would happen to Microsoft supporters 20 years ago.
      • kemayo 2y ago
        > Your karma doesn't reflect the score expected from the blogger behind the top #3 website of HN. This should tell us something. Karma's a reflection of how much someone uses HN. Glancing at his account, it looks like he has never submitted anything before this article, and almost never comments. That account having low karma doesn't really tell us anything about him, beyond that he's not a HN regular.
• rchaud 2y ago
  Have you considered the possibility that the world has changed after 2020, and there's more to discuss re: technology and society than whatever Apple is up to? We've had Covid, meme stocks, Jan 6th, Huawei bans, Ukraine, NFTs, stablecoin collapses, Twitter takeover, AI everything, Chinese EVs, Tiktok ban....this list goes on.