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A comment on Ask HN: Why has discussion of the Google Manifesto been censored?.

Re:Ask HN: Why has discussion of the Google Manifesto been c... by majewsky on Monday August 07, 2017 @09:47AM (#14947374)
Do you mean on HN or elsewhere?

On HN, a story is scored both on the number of upvotes and on the number of comments. When a story has a lot of comments (in proportion to the number of votes), that story is punished based on the idea that it's probably only a few people talking to each other very agitatedly without producing many novel insights.

I have not followed the Google Manifesto discussion, but it's easy to imagine that this prediction holds true in that case.

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Re:Ask HN: Why has discussion of the Google Manifesto been c... by onion2k on Monday August 07, 2017 @09:59AM (#14947471)
When a story has a lot of comments (in proportion to the number of votes), that story is punished based on the idea that it's probably only a few people talking to each other very agitatedly without producing many novel insights.

Perhaps you're right, but a topic could spark an agitated yet wholly positive discussion. Pushing it down the list just because a few people are commenting a lot wouldn't make much sense in some discussions.

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Re:Ask HN: Why has discussion of the Google Manifesto been c... by majewsky on Monday August 07, 2017 @01:15PM (#14949172)
That's the problem with algorithms. Even if they're right 90% of the time, the 10% errors are so much more noticeable.
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