Re:Ask HN: Bias in flagging stories?
by curtisblaine on Monday August 20, 2018 @07:25AM
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Yet a lot of Weinstein stories weren't flagged and two made the frontpage. Looks like bias, so was asking if this kind of implicit bias was common in HN. You flagged Argento's story, did you flag Weinstein's too when it came out?
You may want to re-read the guidelines. Especially the bit about emailing the mods.
Re:Ask HN: Bias in flagging stories?
by curtisblaine on Monday August 20, 2018 @07:40AM
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I'm not asking the mods why Argento's story was flagged. I'm asking the community if HN has a double standard on what news are "acceptable".
Yet again, you don't understand flagging.
You probably already know the answer. There is certainly a liberal bias in the readership and that bias in naturally reflected in what is flagged.
I'm not sure that's true. Every single post about climate change or global warming, for instance--no matter how tech-related the story may happen to be--gets flagged almost immediately. That's not being done by liberals.
In my opinion that's entertainment news, not hackernews material. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."
Some topics, scandals, even catastrophes are usually completely ignored on HN. The idea is that other websites, the main stream media and large newspaper, sufficiently cover it.
I'm not arguing against the story itself. I've read it in the newspaper this morning. Just my expectation when opening HN is not to see/discuss a celebrity paying off a rape victim, regardless the circumstances that led to act. Actually I'm surprised the Weinstein story made the frontpage.