Nest Protect is a terrible buggy product

Re:Nest Protect is a terrible buggy product by jrockway on Saturday February 14, 2015 @02:04AM (#9048975)

I think there is a small faction of anti-Google readers on HN, and then a larger set of people that don't care one way or the other, taking each story at face value. I know there are quite a few of the anti-Google faction that follow me around on HN and try to drag me into arguments about Google in completely unrelated stories. That's why I don't comment much anymore.

With that in mind, and given that HN's ranking algorithm is secret, it seems unfair to accuse a hivemind of intentionally messing with the algorithm to suppress commentary about their employer. Maybe it's a bug. Maybe it's working as intended.

Could one of the HN admins comment? Do you guys notice a lot of Google-related stories getting flagged?

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Re:Nest Protect is a terrible buggy product by dang on Saturday February 14, 2015 @04:07AM (#9049160)

> Do you guys notice a lot of Google-related stories getting flagged?

Not particularly. Controversial stories reliably get lots of upvotes and flags. As far as I can tell, one could replace "Google" with "*" and the same statements would hold.

I'm going to detach this subthread as off-topic now.

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Re:Nest Protect is a terrible buggy product by raldi on Saturday February 14, 2015 @11:11AM (#9049967)

Ooh, that's a nice trick!

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