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Re:How Shadow Banning Can Silently Shift Opinion Online by lupusreal on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @12:07PM (#40430290)
Last I checked, HN has published it's algorithm. Probably out of date now I suppose, but it proves the premise. Slashdot also used to.
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Re:How Shadow Banning Can Silently Shift Opinion Online by cortesoft on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @12:19PM (#40430464)
The comment I replied to said that the only algorithm should be sorted by reverse post date, so it doesn't matter that the algorithm is published or not.
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Re:How Shadow Banning Can Silently Shift Opinion Online by krapp on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @12:12PM (#40430367)
Hacker News doesn't publish anything. It's based on Arc Forum, but YCombinator has made numerous undocumented changes and it may as well be a proprietary fork at this point.

Also a part of HN's "algorithm" is literally the mods manually adjusting things, and you can't publish that.

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