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If a story has enough flags, that alone will kill it, without moderator intervention. I just added a point threshold to prevent this happening to stories that

by pg 17y ago

If a story has enough flags, that alone will kill it, without moderator intervention. I just added a point threshold to prevent this happening to stories that have received a significant number of votes.

tc 17y ago
Thanks Paul.
trickjarrett 17y ago
Without diving into the code, can you tell us the algorithm? Does it scale based on upvotes? Such that a 200 vote story is harder to kill than 70? Or is it just that once a story passes 50 upvotes it can't be programmatically killed?
- pg 17y ago
  At the moment it just has a threshold of 10 points.
Zak 17y ago
What I'd actually most like changed is that dead links become unclickable. The fact that a link doesn't belong here doesn't mean I don't want to see what it was.
- allenbrunson 17y ago
  pg has said in the past that it's because of spam. allowing the urls to stay live in that case would give them unwarranted google juice. EDIT: pg says it's because he doesn't want people following spam links. i stand corrected.
  - pg 17y ago
    It's not page rank (links are nofollow till they get 5 karma) but traffic. I want spammers to realize they get so little traffic from HN that it's not worth posting here.
- garply 17y ago
  Yeah, I recently had to post a completely irrelevant reply in a dead story to ask someone who had gotten there in time to paste me the link.
- pg 17y ago
  Try e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=686224 http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=686224
  - maxwell 17y ago
    Or http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/47550 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/47550
wheels 17y ago
It might be better to make that proportional -- e.g. that 20 upvotes needs 30 flags. I think there are enough "junk" upvotes (catchy title that people upvote without reading, somebody's favorite topic, but didn't read the article, new users that aren't quite used to the HN vibe, etc.) and now a sufficient number of users that getting 10 votes probably isn't all that hard.

by pg 17y ago

tc 17y ago

Thanks Paul.

trickjarrett 17y ago

Without diving into the code, can you tell us the algorithm? Does it scale based on upvotes? Such that a 200 vote story is harder to kill than 70? Or is it just that once a story passes 50 upvotes it can't be programmatically killed?

pg 17y ago
At the moment it just has a threshold of 10 points.

Zak 17y ago

What I'd actually most like changed is that dead links become unclickable. The fact that a link doesn't belong here doesn't mean I don't want to see what it was.

allenbrunson 17y ago
pg has said in the past that it's because of spam. allowing the urls to stay live in that case would give them unwarranted google juice. EDIT: pg says it's because he doesn't want people following spam links. i stand corrected.
- pg 17y ago
  It's not page rank (links are nofollow till they get 5 karma) but traffic. I want spammers to realize they get so little traffic from HN that it's not worth posting here.
garply 17y ago
Yeah, I recently had to post a completely irrelevant reply in a dead story to ask someone who had gotten there in time to paste me the link.
pg 17y ago
Try e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=686224 http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=686224
- maxwell 17y ago
  Or http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/47550 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/47550

wheels 17y ago

It might be better to make that proportional -- e.g. that 20 upvotes needs 30 flags. I think there are enough "junk" upvotes (catchy title that people upvote without reading, somebody's favorite topic, but didn't read the article, new users that aren't quite used to the HN vibe, etc.) and now a sufficient number of users that getting 10 votes probably isn't all that hard.