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Wish this wouldn't have been yanked off the front page!
by gtaylor 12y ago
Wish this wouldn't have been yanked off the front page!
- dang 12y ago"Yanked" suggests human intervention. That's not what happened. It set off the voting ring detector. Edit: we turned the penalty off.
- andybak 12y agoI wonder in this case whether it was a false positive. Lots of people want to support a project like this and it's fairly natural to email people and tell them that the link has been posted. The only reason I don't do that any more is that someone told me about the voting ring detector.
- TylerE 12y agoIsn't that basically vote ringing?
- pbreit 12y agoCommunicating about an appealing topic shouldn't be so detrimental.
- dang 12y agoEvery voting ring considers its topic singularly appealing. This is a hard problem and there are tradeoffs.
- TylerE 12y agoWhat about allowing users (Maybe only those with more than x000 karma) to downvote links?
- dang 12y agoI doubt that we'll introduce story downvoting; at least not without a good reason. Users can already flag stories that shouldn't be on the front page.
- antihero 12y agoIt's a Kickstarter about a Django framework that a large amount of the community have a (vested) interest in. So of course this group of people are going to upvote it, just like node stuff gets upvoted by node people, Ruby by Ruby people, etc.
- gtaylor 12y agoI wasn't making a statement about human intervention at all. One minute it was doing well on the front page, the next minute it was gone. I noticed that something disappeared/yanked/punted/hid it. I guess this sort of protection can be helpful, but I hope that it doesn't keep other high quality but less known content out. DRF is popular enough to overcome this false positive, but I wonder if some other lesser-known (but interesting) stuff would be.
- dang 12y agoPoint taken about "yanked". I share your hope. High-quality, less-known content is exactly what we want more of.