It is the case that posts people make on HN can quickly be moved from the front page to the 2nd or 3rd. This may be algorithmic or a moderator decision A valid point is that there’s no way of knowing why this happens, apart from careful reading of the site’s guidelines. Some users will be bad-jacketed.
The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News
Submitted 5 days ago by King@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-mysterious-forces-steering-views-on-hacker-news/
dgdft@lemmy.world 5 days ago
To spare anyone else the click, this is about one blogger malding that his flamebait posts got flagged.
First post cited was about leaving Element/Matrix because they’re bad, second was an Omarchy showcase.
very_well_lost@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I don’t know, I think they make a reasonable case to suggest that someone is putting their finger on the scale.
But, honestly… duh? Y Combinator is one of the most influential investment firms in Silicon Valley. Of course they’re going to try to protect the image of their chosen investments.
Honestly the bigger story here is that people in tech continue to be so willfully ignorant of stuff like this. Big Tech is not benevolent. If you want unbiased tech news, don’t fucking get it from a company that has such a vested interest in the success of SV tech companies. You’d think that would be obvious.
dgdft@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Did 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.
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 5 days ago
Any alternative you could suggest? I migrated to HN from SlashDot many years ago, because the discussion was mature, and shitposting/jokes were frowned upon.
To this day I haven’t found something similar.