Words growing or shrinking in Hacker News titles: a tidy analysis

Re:Words growing or shrinking in Hacker News titles: a tidy ... by jdminhbg on Thursday June 08, 2017 @12:52PM (#14515405)

When the Snowden leaks first dropped, the front page was absolutely overwhelmed with NSA news, to the exclusion of nearly everything else. Would not be possible to keep that level of interest up without making this is an exclusively NSA/surveillance-driven site.

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Re:Words growing or shrinking in Hacker News titles: a tidy ... by Houshalter on Thursday June 08, 2017 @01:46PM (#14515779)

IIRC the mods also soft banned it because of that. So posts with the word "NSA" in the title get penalized and ranked much lower than other posts. Hence the shrinking.

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Re:Words growing or shrinking in Hacker News titles: a tidy ... by dang on Thursday June 08, 2017 @09:09PM (#14518480)

We did that for a while but stopped already years ago. It was only needed until the story barrage leveled off.

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