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I'm really sad this got downvoted off the front page (this article is only one hour old with 9 points, things 3 hours old with 9 points are still on the page).
by bluehat 12y ago
I'm really sad this got downvoted off the front page (this article is only one hour old with 9 points, things 3 hours old with 9 points are still on the page). It's cool if not everybody is interested in talking about this, but I feel like the entire point of this article was that making whistle-blowers harder to hear is not good for society.
- grey-area 12y agoGood to see people speaking up with their experiences on this topic, however painful it is - whistleblower is definitely the right word for coming forward about sexual harassment and rape in the workplace. Re the story dropping down below other stories - it might not be flagging, it seems there are many complex rules all interacting to rank stories so it's hard to know what causes story placement here but it's probably mechanical rather than deliberate. Seems to be moving up again now.
- wglb 12y agoI found it on the front page.
- dang 12y agoIt didn't get downvoted; medium.com is in a class of websites that get mildly penalized by default pending moderator review. Not a great solution, but the alternative is reams of blogspam and fluff making the front page just because so much of it gets posted. We remove the penalty from solid articles (and typically reset the clock on them to restore a fair time window for upvotes), but it sometimes takes a while before that happens. In the long run we intend to have the community do most of this, but finding and implementing the right mechanisms for that is a lengthy process.
- bluehat 12y agoI can't tell you how relieved I am to hear that. Thanks for telling me!
- ramchip 12y agoI appreciate how moderators sometime join in comment threads to explain their approach. HN moderation used to feel like a black box but I find the interaction with the community much better nowadays. Thanks!
- bootload 12y ago"We remove the penalty from solid articles (and typically reset the clock on them to restore a fair time window for upvotes), but it sometimes takes a while before that happens." @dang, see how "lack of foo transparency" [0] can trick people into thinking there's intent behind the result ~ https://twitter.com/katylevinson/status/574733784517640192 https://twitter.com/katylevinson/status/574733784517640192 - working on post. [0] where 'foo' is moderation, spam filter or some piece of code written for some valid reason.
- xai3luGi 12y agoI agree with bootload, how about publishing all the penalties directly under the post?
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