Comment on The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News
dgdft@lemmy.world 5 days agoDid I miss something? They didn’t post any real evidence at all unless there was a link I didn’t find.
What the post is describing sounds exactly like the post getting flagged by users, then uncensored by the mod team later on.
I’m both an HN user of more than a decade, AND a massive HN hater. I’m predisposed to assume the worst, but there’s very little meat to this allegation.
very_well_lost@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Ah, maybe that’s true. I confess I stopped hanging around HN years ago so I don’t really know how ‘flagging’ works and how much influence users have over post visibility. I thought the OP made it clear that something ‘inorganic’ was going on, but I guess that could be user reports just as easily as it could be moderator action.
Either way, it’s still true that getting your tech news from Silicon Valley’s most darling tech incubator is a dumb idea.