sologrrl

Of course it does, in part thanks to the moderation and flamewar detector. Read this thread, especially PG's comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6596038

Agreed, the stories sunk include ones like the Anandtech review of the Surface Pro, and the site is quite reputed for being neutral, however the excessive number of comments combined with not too many upvotes can easily sink articles which are otherwise just news and this contributes to the filter bubble(funnily there's a anti-filter bubble post right near this article on the front page).

Read pg's comments in this thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6596038

Good guess https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=300bps+microso...

Yes, that came out in a thread where people were complaining that many positive/neutral posts about Microsoft/Nokia were being downranked and disappeared from the front page, while negative stories didn't usually have that problem leading to a chilling effect on the stories submitted and commented on. People seem to have got riled up over it because they thought it was being flagged, but PG said it was because of the flamewar detector that penalizes articles with lots of comments but fewer upvotes, atleast in that particular case.

The flamewar detector does its intended job with things like the gender discrimination stories but it looks like it throws out the baby with the bathwater and contributes to the echo chamber effect.

Here's a couple of Samsung stories that met the same fate. http://hnweird.tumblr.com/

It's really hard to tell(except if you're pg or HN staff) whether a story disappeared because of the flamewar detector, or flagging or the domain greylist or something else. I guess this is intentionally so.

At this point, I guess we have to assume that Facebook's mission is to organize the world's personal connections and make it universally accessible.

This whole subthread is a perfect example of why collapsible comments are badly needed on HN. All heat and no light.

Edit: Found the article, here it is http://socialtimes.com/youtube-pre-roll-ads-drive-users-inst...

Can't find the article now, but I recently read that the Youtube ads getting more obnoxious is hurting a lot of small advertizers and sites. Because of the annoyance, even many non tech people are increasingly looking for solutions and installing ad blocks, which block all ads and not just Youtube's. Google can get around this somewhat by paying Adblock Plus to unblock it's own text ads, but a number of small fish cannot.

Previous discussion of Youtube ads on Reddit here. http://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/18m95j/has_anyo...

Those are absolutely hilarious. Created a new subreddit to submit and vote on the best of these titles at http://www.reddit.com/r/HNCJ

Show HN post for the subreddit is here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6816322

The one you quoted is a real title.

http://www.informatica.md/node/77679