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Ask HN: Is hacker news unfair?

8 pointsby yuashizukiover 10 years ago
hacker news front page -&gt; http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;qjcd6z7.png new section -&gt; http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;KKj24Kl.png<p>I am using Chrom OS<p>here are some more screen shots-&gt; http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;3Lv2RXd.png my link that did not make it to the front page http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;o0nbGN3.png

7 comments

bjourneover 10 years ago
Good riddance! Your link &quot;List of authoritarian regimes..&quot; is exactly the kind of links I don&#x27;t want to see on HN. Your competitor &quot;Interactive go...&quot; is exactly the kind of links I DO want to see.
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makeitsucklessover 10 years ago
HN is strongly moderated, censored, has a biased ranking system and a very biased community.<p>It&#x27;s not a matter of fair. It is what it is, and it works the way the owners and most users like it. And it is done very, very well.<p>Personally, I think the bias has become so strong that the lack of a viable alternative or reddit-style autonomous subs is really starting to grate.<p>HN has become a homogenous echo chamber in which saying the &quot;wrong&quot; thing will get you buried or even slow&#x2F;shadow banned.<p>But usually the manipulation is more subtle in avoiding those discussions altogether, and this may be a typical example of that. (Which in itself would an excellent example of good, subtle moderation.)<p>The great irony is that on a platform that considers politics to be off-topic, political and ideological bias dominates almost everything but the most neutral of scientific and technological topics.<p>But I suspect most HN-ers, including the moderators, are barely aware of that bias because they operate inside a bubble of like-minded people within a very narrow ideological spectrum.<p>But &quot;fair&quot; doesn&#x27;t come into it. It works as intended.
r721over 10 years ago
Read this article: <a href="http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.righto.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;11&#x2F;how-hacker-news-ranking-really...</a>
avinasshover 10 years ago
Clickables:<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/qjcd6z7.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;qjcd6z7.png</a><p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/KKj24Kl.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;KKj24Kl.png</a><p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/3Lv2RXd.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;3Lv2RXd.png</a><p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/o0nbGN3.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;o0nbGN3.png</a>
dangover 10 years ago
Your post was lower in rank because users flagged it.<p>The current post has been flagged by users, too.
yuashizukiover 10 years ago
You can see my link in the new section that had 11 points but still did not make it to the front page.
krappover 10 years ago
I don&#x27;t know about &#x27;unfair&#x27;, but it is most definitely not a direct democracy.