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I Quit Hacker News

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261 points cwan | 3 comments | 23 Nov 10 17:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.558s | source
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pg ◴[23 Nov 10 18:50 UTC] No.1934880[source]▶
The TSA stories are certainly fluff in the sense of being easy to upvote, even if the underlying principles are important. Ironically, so are posts saying that one is tired of TSA stories.

I do believe the TSA stories represent a danger. If there's a road from hacking to politics, it's probably civil liberties. So already for the past week TSA stories have had an automatic penalty applied. Or more precisly, they've been autotagged as being political, which entails a penalty.

There are no TSA stories on the frontpage at this moment. In fact, the frontpage is a pretty normal HN frontpage now.

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px ◴[23 Nov 10 19:05 UTC] No.1934937[source]▶
Just curious: Was this submission penalized, too? I noticed it dropped on the front page from #1 to about #25 almost instantly at around 1:50 EST.
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pg ◴[23 Nov 10 19:07 UTC] No.1934950[source]▶
Yes; posts complaining about excessive posts about topic x are effectively posts about topic x, in their effect on the content of the site.
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1. paraschopra ◴[23 Nov 10 19:21 UTC] No.1935009[source]▶
Wow, just curious about the implementation. Do you use some sort of heuristics in determining political posts or excessively complaining posts?
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2. lwhi ◴[23 Nov 10 21:41 UTC] No.1935486[source]▶
I'd imagine the heuristics mechanism was biologically evolved ... ;)
3. pg ◴[24 Nov 10 07:05 UTC] No.1936734[source]▶
The main one is number of flags. When anything gets over a certain number of flags, it shows up on a list that admins see. They decide either to kill it, mark it as political or whatever, or do nothing.