- Thank you Dang and team for your moderation efforts.
You’ve done a remarkably good job maintaining the quality of the community - we appreciate you.
- Hacker News has a silent majority that works tirelessly to keep this site relatively free of ads disguised as articles and political news. I hope it stays that way. I'm just completely tired of those political echo chamber articles, even when I happen to agree with them.
by leosanchez
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- > it's hard to believe that HN users would be tired of LLM-related news.
Not hard to believe at all. While I don't flag any posts. I have no interest in LLM related content.
I also actively use AI tools btw. It's just tiring seeing everything with AI suffix including monitors.
- Ok, so let's think about this. If we were to make a "hacker news for politics", how would we do that? It would have to be moderated, what would be the rules? Who wants to do it?
- (2024)
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39230513
- I browse HN too much, I recognised most the removals as simply recent duplicates.
by matsemann
3 subcomments
- In the january archive [0] I can't find this flagged story [1]. Was it already fallen off when flag-killed? Or doesn't it catch these?
So many important tech related debates lately being silenced by mass flagging. Luckily they remain in https://news.ycombinator.com/active
(I feel like "everything" is now "political" and thus not wanted here. Since Musk for instance now is a political figure, one cannot discuss X even when not a partisan topic about X. Or when some guy does big swoops that affect tech world wide, it's also not possible to discuss here. And I miss it, because I think HN is full of great people and I would like your take on these events.)
[0]: https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals/blob/ma...
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46503199
- Publishing to GitHub using git is a very interesting mechanism, crafty and hacky, love it!
by smusamashah
0 subcomment
- Somewhat related, I use this script to see which posts are new on frontpage. Also shows rank change but I don't look at that anymore. https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/e7c9ed3936ba69e522f8cb38...
- "An Unfolding Scientific Revolution in Cosmology" seems to be uncontentious in itself but that it is on economicsfromthetopdown.com raises a question about why it is there at all. Also there seems to be little that is newsworthy in it.
by 2OEH8eoCRo0
1 subcomments
- I wish HN would add something in the page that indicates that flags were turned off for a post.
- I never understood the "flag" option on HN. Usually "flag" means to flag as inappropriate - porn, obvious spam, etc.
But, is it meant to be used as "downvote"? i.e. "I don't want to see this topic" or "I disagree with this opinion?". I guess the equivalent here is just lack of an upvote?
There seems to be a variety feedback that mean different things... e.g. sometimes I would like to say "I strongly disagree with this opinion", but I don't want to say "This shouldn't be on HN".
- I’m glad the flagging system exists on HN but I think it could do with improvements. I think it would be interesting to be able to see how many flags an item has gotten and who has flagged it.
There’s a clear pattern to items that get flagged (those that are critical of right wing causes in particular, Musk, DOGE, ICE etc) despite those topics generating a lot of discussion. It would be interesting to have clearer visibility into whether this kind of thing is spontaneous or whether there is a core group of power users censoring topics they dislike.
- uh, found several mines :)
sometime I have the feeling having a username that ends with "xx" does not help much :)
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by keepamovin
0 subcomment
- I feel like if you are not making this page at least once or twice a year you are not trying hard enough to think outside "da box".
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