Re:I managed to take down arbitrary posts on Hacker News
by yieldcrv on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @09:07PM
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> lowering the author’s credibility in the eyes of the algorithm.
This is one of the known flaws of Hackernews
It has a way of earning greater weight to users but if you fall out of that there is no way back in. It is easier to fall out when the account is new, a short string of negative karma or flags and that account is burned. Browser session as well. IP not as much but the mods do watch when an IP address eventually gets linked to a malbehaved user to apply greater scrutiny.
From their perspective this is fine, because people arent that persistent. They dont have a way to quantify what an improved system looks like that allows for re-earning good standing, so to then there’s no rationale to develop that, as long as people just move or stay shadowbanned talking to themselves forever.
This is one of the known flaws of Hackernews
It has a way of earning greater weight to users but if you fall out of that there is no way back in. It is easier to fall out when the account is new, a short string of negative karma or flags and that account is burned. Browser session as well. IP not as much but the mods do watch when an IP address eventually gets linked to a malbehaved user to apply greater scrutiny.
From their perspective this is fine, because people arent that persistent. They dont have a way to quantify what an improved system looks like that allows for re-earning good standing, so to then there’s no rationale to develop that, as long as people just move or stay shadowbanned talking to themselves forever.