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Several users flagged this submission, correctly. The topic of the app's launch was on the front page for several hours last week and generated a huge discussi

by tomhow 1y ago

Several users flagged this submission, correctly. The topic of the app's launch was on the front page for several hours last week and generated a huge discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44496729 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44496729 This latest story doesn't seem to carry any "significant new information", which is a critical qualifier for a new HN thread. The article's topic is the quote by the United States Attorney General on a cable news interview, and even that was made – and reported – last week when the topic was still active on HN. It's a detail in the overall story that has already had major coverage here. If there was an arrest or some other material legal action, that would likely warrant a new thread. Edit: I updated the comment to remove the incorrect implication that there is any new information in the article at all.

octo888 1y ago
Was it the actual flagging by users that deranked it? Or mod intervention based on those signals? Not disagreeing with the action just curious about the ambiguity in your comment
- tomhow 1y ago
  It's always a combination of upvotes, flags, vouches, auto-penalties and manual penalties that affect the ranking. I don't know which was the particular one of the downweights that pulled it off the front page; it was already off when I first saw it. But it's a clear-cut case of a duplicate post, so there was no need for me to do anything to alter what had already happened.
rsynnott 1y ago
> The only new information is a quote by the United States Attorney General on a cable news interview This feels like an illustration of just how unhinged the US has become, that the _AG threatening a private citizen_ is not considered major news. The frog is, if not boiled, at least sous-vide'd.
- tomhow 1y ago
  I don't live in the US, and that's not what I wrote. I wrote that it's not additional news beyond what has already been reported and discussed here, and this story is no more current/recent that the main reporting from last week. Here it is referenced in two comments in that thread, posted over five days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44445727 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44445727 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44448673 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44448673

by tomhow 1y ago

octo888 1y ago

Was it the actual flagging by users that deranked it? Or mod intervention based on those signals? Not disagreeing with the action just curious about the ambiguity in your comment

tomhow 1y ago
It's always a combination of upvotes, flags, vouches, auto-penalties and manual penalties that affect the ranking. I don't know which was the particular one of the downweights that pulled it off the front page; it was already off when I first saw it. But it's a clear-cut case of a duplicate post, so there was no need for me to do anything to alter what had already happened.

rsynnott 1y ago

> The only new information is a quote by the United States Attorney General on a cable news interview This feels like an illustration of just how unhinged the US has become, that the _AG threatening a private citizen_ is not considered major news. The frog is, if not boiled, at least sous-vide'd.

tomhow 1y ago
I don't live in the US, and that's not what I wrote. I wrote that it's not additional news beyond what has already been reported and discussed here, and this story is no more current/recent that the main reporting from last week. Here it is referenced in two comments in that thread, posted over five days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44445727 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44445727 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44448673 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44448673