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Ask HN: Is hacker news unfair?
hacker news front page ->
http://i.imgur.com/qjcd6z7.png
new section ->
http://i.imgur.com/KKj24Kl.png
I am using Chrom OS
here are some more screen shots->
http://i.imgur.com/3Lv2RXd.png
my link that did not make it to the front page
http://i.imgur.com/o0nbGN3.png
- yuashizuki 12y agoYou can see my link in the new section that had 11 points but still did not make it to the front page.
- r721 12y agoRead this article: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
- krapp 12y agoI don't know about 'unfair', but it is most definitely not a direct democracy.
- avinassh 12y agoClickables: http://i.imgur.com/qjcd6z7.png http://i.imgur.com/qjcd6z7.png http://i.imgur.com/KKj24Kl.png http://i.imgur.com/KKj24Kl.png http://i.imgur.com/3Lv2RXd.png http://i.imgur.com/3Lv2RXd.png http://i.imgur.com/o0nbGN3.png http://i.imgur.com/o0nbGN3.png
- bjourne 12y agoGood riddance! Your link "List of authoritarian regimes.." is exactly the kind of links I don't want to see on HN. Your competitor "Interactive go..." is exactly the kind of links I DO want to see.
- yuashizuki 12y ago"Interactive go..." was not my competitor, I just pointed it out for a reference.
- makeitsuckless 12y agoHN is strongly moderated, censored, has a biased ranking system and a very biased community. It's not a matter of fair. It is what it is, and it works the way the owners and most users like it. And it is done very, very well. Personally, I think the bias has become so strong that the lack of a viable alternative or reddit-style autonomous subs is really starting to grate. HN has become a homogenous echo chamber in which saying the "wrong" thing will get you buried or even slow/shadow banned. But usually the manipulation is more subtle in avoiding those discussions altogether, and this may be a typical example of that. (Which in itself would an excellent example of good, subtle moderation.) The great irony is that on a platform that considers politics to be off-topic, political and ideological bias dominates almost everything but the most neutral of scientific and technological topics. But I suspect most HN-ers, including the moderators, are barely aware of that bias because they operate inside a bubble of like-minded people within a very narrow ideological spectrum. But "fair" doesn't come into it. It works as intended.
- dang 12y agoYour post was lower in rank because users flagged it. The current post has been flagged by users, too.