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Re:Analyzing HN moderation and censorship by aaron-lebo on Thursday October 19, 2017 @11:48AM (#15508906)
I flag almost every single one of those stories, because they stopped covering new ground after about the first day or two. I can't be the only one, maybe the users are deciding?

Outside of flagging, behavior within the post itself (lots of comments?) probably penalize them. Really, really good stuff makes the frontpage, though. The issues at Uber, for example, were widely discussed.

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Re:Analyzing HN moderation and censorship by hsod on Thursday October 19, 2017 @11:58AM (#15509008)
The first day or two of what?
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Re:Analyzing HN moderation and censorship by aaron-lebo on Thursday October 19, 2017 @12:05PM (#15509085)
Christmas of course.

What I mean is if you read the comments on an article about James Damore the day it broke and read the comments were the article to be posted today, they haven't really evolved. It's the same canards over and over. Damore being an example of a story that users were indignant about getting knocked off the frontpage.

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Re:Analyzing HN moderation and censorship by dhimes on Thursday October 19, 2017 @04:33PM (#15511327)
It must have worked. I had to duckduckgo James Damore.
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