Comment by dang

8 months ago

The admins/mods turned off the flags on this story as soon as we found out about it, restoring it to HN's front page.

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SamLL  8 months ago

Are there any structural or systematic changes that should be made to how the site works right now, so that remedies such as this do not need to be hand performed one-offs?

  • dang  8 months ago

    Maybe? I'm wary of technical solutions to non-technical problems. The base problem here seems non-technical to me—it's the combination of:

    1. there's a tsunami of intense (and important) political stories right now

    2. HN has 30 slots on its frontpage

    3. HN is not a current affairs site

    In other words, the fundamentals themselves are twisted in a knot. I don't see how one gets around that.

    • bmacho  8 months ago

      I think you are describing a different, hypothetical problem?

      The current problem is that news that are critic of the current administration are suppressed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43462783 (U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat) was off the front page for like ~24 hours?

      You are describing the problem that there are too many actual politic related news on the front page. That is not a problem right now.

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