> Email mods (<hn@ycombinator.com>) if you have concerns
Why waste your time? Dang or Tom will link you to the same pseudo intellectual analysis and claim there is no bias.
Meanwhile, we have eat good food and iran protests plastering the front page, while the news of a an unprovoked murder of a US citizen by masked agents of the state gets buried with flags.
HN has other objectives, specifically "intellectual curiosity". And I'm well aware that this results in a strong status quo bias, something I'm quite uncomfortable with these days:
I'm describing the system as I understand it. (I'm not a mod, or a founder, just a long-time participant in HN and observer of it, as well as numerous other fora over the past 40-odd years.)
The Minnesota ICE murder story has had multiple submissions and discussion. The Palantir-founder tweet-based story only one AFAIU. HN deprecates repeated discussion of a given topic.
(Dang and other mods discuss this point often.)
Again, I'm describing HN's dynamics, and how to intervene effectively should you care to do so. I'm not defending it, though I'll grudgingly admit it works pretty well much of the time. Politics (of virtually any stripe or national focus) tends to be far more failure-prone, however.
Generally: users flag content.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44333094>
Email mods (<hn@ycombinator.com>) if you have concerns.
> Email mods (<hn@ycombinator.com>) if you have concerns
Why waste your time? Dang or Tom will link you to the same pseudo intellectual analysis and claim there is no bias.
Meanwhile, we have eat good food and iran protests plastering the front page, while the news of a an unprovoked murder of a US citizen by masked agents of the state gets buried with flags.
We all know the answer.
HN has other objectives, specifically "intellectual curiosity". And I'm well aware that this results in a strong status quo bias, something I'm quite uncomfortable with these days:
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766618>
I'm not so sure that this particular incident can be explained by status quo bias.
We had a tweet about killing communists up on the front page for two days, but this topic remains flagged.
What status quo does that represent? Unless we will openly admit that the status quo referred to is fascism, and hackernews largely represents that.
I'm describing the system as I understand it. (I'm not a mod, or a founder, just a long-time participant in HN and observer of it, as well as numerous other fora over the past 40-odd years.)
The Minnesota ICE murder story has had multiple submissions and discussion. The Palantir-founder tweet-based story only one AFAIU. HN deprecates repeated discussion of a given topic.
(Dang and other mods discuss this point often.)
Again, I'm describing HN's dynamics, and how to intervene effectively should you care to do so. I'm not defending it, though I'll grudgingly admit it works pretty well much of the time. Politics (of virtually any stripe or national focus) tends to be far more failure-prone, however.
Tons of rightwingers on HN. The 'don't tread on me' people who are now in the 'the secret police should check everyone's papers' camp.