Comment by matt_heimer
1 year ago
> The assumption is that a Story cannot go from the top 30 to a position higher than 90 in a single minute, without having been explicitly removed.
I'm not sure this is a valid assumption. https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=39089599, seems to be incorrectly detected.
Honestly only 3 or 4 out of 13 look like possible moderation to me. And they don't seem bad. Does a story about razor wire in Texas belong on hacker news? I'm in Texas so the story is of interest to me but I'd expect to hear about it elsewhere, not on HN.
Overall it just makes me think HN is doing a good job at moderation.
I dont understand what "explicit" means here.
If it gets algorithmically deranked for user flags, but but not hidden, is that explicit?
I assume "explicit" means manual moderator intervention, but I don't really see anything that suggests that.
> I assume "explicit" means manual moderator intervention, but I don't really see anything that suggests that
Because there is no visible indication when moderator intervention happens. It doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
It's not a valid assumption. I'd better post about this at the top level: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231537.
> Does a story about razor wire in Texas belong on hacker news? I'm in Texas so the story is of interest to me but I'd expect to hear about it elsewhere, not on HN.
Perhaps in TX you don't realize it, but it's a big national story, implicating the Constitution, federal authority, even the Civil War.
It's political, for sure; but it's not local.
HN is present in more than just the US