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Ask HN: Why about a third of the submissions become dead in mere minutes?

12 points by g-b-r

by wmf

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This has been the case for years. Many accounts and domains are hellbanned so their submissions are automatically killed. Most of these are spam of various kinds.
I read /newest almost every day and vouch for submissions that I think have been unfairly killed but that's almost never.

by brudgers

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Most pages on the internet are not a good fit for HN.
check all recent dead posts and vouch for them if they don't deserve to be dead?
To the extent it is important to someone they will do it. To the extent it is not, they won’t.
How does it work
I suspect using tools, heuristics, and intuitions developed through direct experience within exactly the circumstances of running HN.

by khurs

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For those not aware - in your profile you can turn on showdead option that shows you dead submissions & dead comments.

by kay_o

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by g-b-r

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Ok, it's probably not a recent phenomenon:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33272357 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38412074 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28457450
No real answer there though, unless there's someone like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38413375 flagging like there was no tomorrow for subjective reasons.

by g-b-r

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And, what the fuck, I went up to the 800 newest submission without finding a single flagged but not yet dead submission???

by cyk888

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by journal

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Because they are feeding titles into classification function and based on what they don't like which they've established before, they kill the post before anyone can see it. NH is criminal and they'll never release the source code because they will be punished for what they're doing.

by newsomix9xl

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Greater transparency would be great. This is a wonderful attempt to look at the guts of the HNN machine.
The submission queue definitely gets gamified - self promoting articles seem to get a massive surge of upvotes suggesting a kind of bot farm.
Enquiring minds wanna no.