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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by dang on Saturday November 19, 2022 @01:59AM (#33667761)

The current thread ended up spending 10 hours on HN's front page. IIRC it was flagged by users and we restored it. I didn't see your comment till just now. (@dang doesn't do anything—if you or anyone want to tell me something, the reliable message queue is [email protected].)

I agree that this is a major ongoing topic (MOT) and needs to be discussed. At the same time, so many of the submissions are repeats of things already posted. This is a classic situation that comes up a few times a year (the FTX saga is another going on right now).

Obviously some of the gazillion Twittermusk stories contain SNI [1], and some (most) are just follow-ups [2] or repetitive angerwars, and we have to make a distinction between the two or HN's frontpage will consist of nothing but.

With user flags and the flamewar detector also downranking stories, it's possible for this strategy to get overapplied, in which case a MOT ends up getting insufficient oxygen. That's not good for HN either! It isn't because of sinister plutocracy or anything like that—it's a failure mode of the strategy I just described. User pushback is helpful!

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

p.s. HN has worked this way for a long time - coming up on a decade now: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by davidw on Saturday November 19, 2022 @11:20AM (#33671484)

As elsewhere in this thread, I think you all do a great job juggling a bunch of different factors. Thank you!

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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by dang on Saturday November 19, 2022 @06:45PM (#33676292)

I really appreciate that, considering that the two of us have been arguing (nicely!) about these things since long before I was dang. Thank you as well!

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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by Tozen on Sunday November 20, 2022 @07:05AM (#33680289)

Dang, what is the deal with accounts being unfairly blocked from submitting links? And can mods apply this punishment arbitrarily?

Some accounts are allowed to submit links frequently, even a few minutes between submissions, while other accounts are being blocked from submitting and can only do so once every few or 24 hours. "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks." Is this some type of new punitive action?

It also looks very unfair, when applied to accounts that are clearly not spammers (and maybe submit a few times in a day or week) or appears as a punitive action because of some difference of opinion with a mod.

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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by dang on Sunday November 20, 2022 @05:40PM (#33686270)

We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars, as your account did recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33578462.

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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by Tozen on Sunday November 20, 2022 @06:10PM (#33686536)

I see. Have to avoid the low quality comments and involvement in flamewars. The original comment was removed as well, in addition to the ones after and before the one linked. Understood.

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