A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors

Re:A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors by censthrowaway23 on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @02:07PM (#38774866)

If only we had some transparent way to know if it’s common or not or if it just happens to bad people we don’t like.

Unfortunately we don’t and we just have to trust dang and the benevolent hacker news gods to always have our best interests at heart and only spam us with the content that they want to spam us with and of course their friends and insiders content which we should be grateful to be spammed with.

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Re:A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors by pvg on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @05:31PM (#38776819)

We do know to a reasonable degree because otherwise the ‘improperly’ banned would make a noticeable fuss. It’s not a common enough occurrence but maybe you have some in mind.

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Re:A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors by romafirst3 on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @12:48AM (#38779446)

Huh? How would they know to make a fuss. They aren’t even notified, they are shadow banned.

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Re:A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors by pvg on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @10:57AM (#38783191)

How would they know to make a fuss.

This is not hard to figure out plus when it was frequent, they did.

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