Re:Ask HN: [Meta] Popular/active political posts disappearin...
by krapp on Monday January 30, 2017 @06:59AM
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>Do you think the community would bear more aggressive curation?
As it wouldn't affect the rank of the stories themselves, I don't see why not. It might not need human intervention either, just apply a few rules before building the comment page such as not displaying comments from a certain depth (which tend to be tangential) or not displaying downvoted comments, and preferring upvoted comments.
Re:Ask HN: [Meta] Popular/active political posts disappearin...
by grzm on Monday January 30, 2017 @08:51AM
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Hmmm. I was thinking more along the lines of more aggressively flagging/downvoting. Though I think either would see (some) members complaining about censorship.
As it wouldn't affect the rank of the stories themselves, I don't see why not. It might not need human intervention either, just apply a few rules before building the comment page such as not displaying comments from a certain depth (which tend to be tangential) or not displaying downvoted comments, and preferring upvoted comments.