Comment by grey-area
12 years ago
Offtopic, but there's a problem on this site with this kind of story now. I'm not sure if it's the flamewar detection, or flagging, or some other automated system, but stories like this which are very popular and not remotely a flamewar, but an interesting discussion, are disappearing off the home page too fast in my opinion. This is a topic that will define a generation's attitude to technology and the internet, and is particularly pertinent to silicone valley.
Yet this morning this story went from top of the page:
14. NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide (washingtonpost.com) 1395 points by nqureshi 15 hours ago | flag | 533 comments
To behind stories like this:
12. Java Virtual Machine in pure Node.js (github.com) 232 points by binarymax 16 hours ago | flag | 129 comments
I'd be interested to know the reason, and perhaps whatever algorithm is voting this down could be adjusted, because it's clearly not working?
Going out on a limb here because this does not make sense to me either. But maybe this has something to do with the fact that the valley built all of the software used to support this, quietly invested in it all in 2010 for undisclosed amounts at least in the tens of billions and approaching or exceeding 100 billion, and the money doesn't want it on the front page of one of the most popular news sites?
By money i mean this money that keeps its actions shadier than the NSA: https://angel.co/emc https://angel.co/emc-ventures
I came here and read some comments because I was wondering the same. Previously when something got >1k points, it would stay on the homepage at least a full day. Now it's almost off the front page with ~1.5k points in 22 hours.