Comment by atleta
4 years ago
It's already being discussed on HN [1] but for some reason it's down to the 3rd page despite having ~1200 upvotes at the moment and ~600 comments, including from Greg KH. (And the submission is only 5 hours old.)
4 years ago
It's already being discussed on HN [1] but for some reason it's down to the 3rd page despite having ~1200 upvotes at the moment and ~600 comments, including from Greg KH. (And the submission is only 5 hours old.)
Sorry, we got that wrong. Fixed now.
Edit: turns out it was just that there were two different threads on the frontpage about this story and a moderator downweighted the earlier one. That's standard moderation. Usually we merge the threads (and I've since done so) but I'm the only mod who currently does that and I wasn't online yet.
Great, thanks for fixing it!
This is another example of HN's front page submission getting aggressively moderated for no good reason. It's been happening a lot lately.
Perhaps you've been seeing it more for some reason, or it has seemed more aggressive to you for some reason, but I can tell you that the way we moderate HN's front page hasn't changed in many years.
It's clear to me now that this case was a moderation mistake. We make them sometimes (alas), but that's also been true for many years. Moderation is guesswork. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
It would be nice to have transparency on mod actions like we have with user actions (aka showdead). People are rightfully more nervous as other platforms are switching to heavy handed moderation.