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Re:Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page by ballenf on Monday March 13, 2017 @09:56AM (#13857833)
Once it's public (even unofficially), people will begin to rely on the current implementation and then complain if it is ever tweaked or changed. They build towards the value it grants and then complain that the value was arbitrarily stolen from them.
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Re:Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page by leephillips on Monday March 13, 2017 @10:28AM (#13858049)
That's for sure. I rarely visit SEO websites or forums, but the few times I did I saw lots of complaints from people who seemed to think that Google owed them something after tweaking their page ranking algorithms.
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Re:Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page by stinkytaco on Monday March 13, 2017 @10:30AM (#13858058)
But aren't the people who are relying on that value precisely the people you want to keep out?
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