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new submissions were being deaded before being on the page long enough to be flagged, that and the lack of any entropy at all (they really did all disappear at
by daleharvey 17y ago
new submissions were being deaded before being on the page long enough to be flagged, that and the lack of any entropy at all (they really did all disappear at the same time) and that some of them had ~10 comments suggests that it was manual.
Im not complaining about it if they were manually removed, I agree that they were out of hand.
- jacquesm 17y agoUntil somebody owes up to doing it by hand my money is on algorithms, caching and flagging. I could easily be wrong though. I've seen exactly one intervention in all my time here on HN and it was well warranted ('Arrington'), other than that nothing that I could point my finger at.
- mbrubeck 17y agoI know that the moderators do "intervene" because sometimes pg talks about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=709370 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=709370 "There are days when HN seems determined to jump the shark, and the only reason it doesn't is that the editors heave it back."