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Unjustly? The front page is automated: it is not a human entity. It has no notion of fairness or justice. Do you understand all of the technical reasons why po
by arh68 13y ago
Unjustly? The front page is automated: it is not a human entity. It has no notion of fairness or justice.
Do you understand all of the technical reasons why posts are penalized off the front page? Do you have improvements to the ranking? Or is this merely a rant? Sometimes things get unfortunately demoted. Life goes on.
- jqueryin 13y agoThe front page is far more than automated my dear friend. While automation indeed plays a key role, PG and a select number of YC alum handle moderation of the site. As with most sizable sites that handle comment/post moderation, I'm under the assumption the system automation flags certain posts and perhaps auto manages others. The key being that certain tasks require human intervention as machine learning only gets you so far. The automation aspect likely makes some very well educated guesses, but there's always the aspect of confidence intervals not being met and probabilistically performing incorrect actions.