dang has detailed this before. After so many flags vs upvotes, a post is pushed to the bottom of the third page or top of four page of results. This is is before the [flagged] state is reached. You can often find highly upvoted but "politically contentious" submissions at position 90 or above.
[Edit: I interpreted "curated manually" to mean that dang picks each story that is on the front page. tptacek interpreted it to mean that, since users upvote and comment on stories, that's "manual curation". I interpret that as being "automatic curation", that is, an algorithm picks the front page stories, even though it's based on users' upvotes and comments. I cannot prove which of these two forms belter meant. Naturally, I prefer to think that it was the one I read it as, but I can squint hard enough to see tptacek's version.]
It is (it's a combination of manual and community inputs) but almost certainly the reason this isn't on the front page is that lots of people flag stories about the Trump administration. I didn't flag this one (it's too juicy, and has a Signal connection) but I flag most of the other ones.
To what end? How is this newsworthy any more? It has the President's blessing - that's all you need now.
If literally storming your government building, threating your representatives and injuring police officers isn't punishable any more what is?
It does really feel like we are men watching our women and children accosted. We feel impotent as the public currently.
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No, Hunter Biden is not at all the „same“ as the false elector scheme and violently storming the capitol.
To anyone, I recommend you give this a read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot
"same about foe example Hunter Biden"
Hunter never worked in the Biden Admin though, so it is completely irrelevant.
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As far as I know, if submissions get flagged they get downranked. Not sure about the details.
It's not currently flagged, though. (Or at least, it's not currently marked [flagged].)
dang has detailed this before. After so many flags vs upvotes, a post is pushed to the bottom of the third page or top of four page of results. This is is before the [flagged] state is reached. You can often find highly upvoted but "politically contentious" submissions at position 90 or above.
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HN front page is curated manually.
I don't believe your statement is accurate.
[Edit: I interpreted "curated manually" to mean that dang picks each story that is on the front page. tptacek interpreted it to mean that, since users upvote and comment on stories, that's "manual curation". I interpret that as being "automatic curation", that is, an algorithm picks the front page stories, even though it's based on users' upvotes and comments. I cannot prove which of these two forms belter meant. Naturally, I prefer to think that it was the one I read it as, but I can squint hard enough to see tptacek's version.]
In the front page number 8 is 19 points - 3 hours ago | 1 comment
number 30 is 38 points 16 hours ago | 0 comments
number 7 is 13 points | 3 comments
This one has 142 points and 35 comments in 2 hours. Is neither on the first or second page.
What is the logic?
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It is (it's a combination of manual and community inputs) but almost certainly the reason this isn't on the front page is that lots of people flag stories about the Trump administration. I didn't flag this one (it's too juicy, and has a Signal connection) but I flag most of the other ones.
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Omerta.