We don’t “remove” anything, and what we “like” doesn’t come into it; our job is to keep discussions healthy and curious and maintain the trust of the community.
Stories that are primarily about political controversy will generally get downweighted by:
- community flags
- flamewar penalties
- software penalties that are applied by default to publications and topics that are primarily focused on daily politics controversy.
But even with these penalties the stories can easily be found on /active, and everything that’s ever posted can be found on /newest (with ‘showdead’ turned on).
When a story contains “significant new information” we turn off these penalties to ensure it gets exposure on the front page, which we’ve done here and which we’ve done for every major breaking story over the many years that this approach has been in place.
Yes, I agree, it's very traditional for businesses to use the behaviour of their software as an accountability sink, as if they didn't create that behaviour to begin with, don't have the ability to change it, and don't have the ability to override it.
They remove political content they don't like. Plenty remains up.
Where does this come from?
We don’t “remove” anything, and what we “like” doesn’t come into it; our job is to keep discussions healthy and curious and maintain the trust of the community.
Stories that are primarily about political controversy will generally get downweighted by:
- community flags
- flamewar penalties
- software penalties that are applied by default to publications and topics that are primarily focused on daily politics controversy.
But even with these penalties the stories can easily be found on /active, and everything that’s ever posted can be found on /newest (with ‘showdead’ turned on).
When a story contains “significant new information” we turn off these penalties to ensure it gets exposure on the front page, which we’ve done here and which we’ve done for every major breaking story over the many years that this approach has been in place.
Yes, I agree, it's very traditional for businesses to use the behaviour of their software as an accountability sink, as if they didn't create that behaviour to begin with, don't have the ability to change it, and don't have the ability to override it.
Some of the other threads about this have been removed, and not for being duplicates.
All content is political. Some gets removed.
Nothing gets “removed” unless a user specifically asks us to delete an earlier post.
Some things get downweighted in accordance with the guidelines and community expectations but everything can still be found.
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