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Here it seems user-driven (people flagging articles that are entirely appropriate as way to suppress them), but the fact that this happens often and doesn't see
by marijn 11y ago
Here it seems user-driven (people flagging articles that are entirely appropriate as way to suppress them), but the fact that this happens often and doesn't seem to be perceived as a serious problem by the site maintainers does deserve attention.
- krapp 11y agoKarma based voting is supposed to drive attention to the most popular stories and users, and away from everything else. It's possibly not seen as a serious problem because the system is working as intended.
- nitrogen 11y agoWhat would be "most popular" doesn't get a chance to be seen if a concerted minority flags certain kinds of articles, as it seems the parent post is suggesting.
- krapp 11y agoPart of being popular on HN is not being controversial enough to be flagged. Even something as contextually neutral as a thread having more comments than upvotes will flag it. It is elitist and undemocratic, and intentionally so, although the staff has mentioned that they do try to counteract the downward bias of the site when they feel a story has merit.
- chris_wot 11y agoHan buries links routinely (for example they buried the story on Hola yesterday), but they don't bury stories just because they are sponsors.
- dang 11y ago> for example they buried the story on Hola yesterday Pretty sure that was because it was a dupe and that the original had massive discussion here. One pattern I've noticed is that a story will often break on HN early, before it hits the main tech press. A day or two later, when more mainstream posts start appearing, we get a new wave of submissions about the story. Anyone who didn't see the original will wonder why those are getting buried. In the current system, there's no good answer to this—other than that a few indomitable users post links to the original discussion. We do have some ideas about how to fix it more systematically.