Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and...
by dang on Saturday November 19, 2022 @02:37AM
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You're right, and the people complaining are also right because the story does deserve oxygen—just not all the oxygen.
It's our job to balance this so that it gets some oxygen but not all the oxygen. The system tends not to be able to do this without human intervention—either the flags win (in which case the story gets smothered) or the upvotes win (in which case HN becomes Twittermusk News with a side dish of SBFTX). Human intervention is needed to keep the teeter-totter from tottering too far either way.
We're super open to user feedback about it. If you (or anyone) want to influence the balance, you should make your case to [email protected]. That's the only reliable message queue.
It's our job to balance this so that it gets some oxygen but not all the oxygen. The system tends not to be able to do this without human intervention—either the flags win (in which case the story gets smothered) or the upvotes win (in which case HN becomes Twittermusk News with a side dish of SBFTX). Human intervention is needed to keep the teeter-totter from tottering too far either way.
We're super open to user feedback about it. If you (or anyone) want to influence the balance, you should make your case to [email protected]. That's the only reliable message queue.