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Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"

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724 points simonw | 3 comments | 11 Jul 25 00:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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chambo622 ◴[11 Jul 25 03:15 UTC] No.44528105[source]▶
Not sure why this is flagged. Relevant analysis.
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matsemann ◴[11 Jul 25 06:10 UTC] No.44528856[source]▶
Anything that could put Musk or Trump in a negative light is immediately flagged here. Discussions about how Grok went crazy the other day was also buried.

If you want to know how big tech is influencing the world, HN is no longer the place to look. It's too easy to manipulate.

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mkl ◴[11 Jul 25 08:35 UTC] No.44529689[source]▶
Anything that triggers the flamewar detector gets down-weighted automatically. Those two trigger discussion full of fast poorly thought out replies and often way more comments than story upvotes, so stories involving them often trip that detector. On top of that, the discussion is usually tiresome and not very interesting, so people who would rather see more interesting things on the front page are more likely to flag it. It's not some conspiracy.
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1. GeoAtreides ◴[11 Jul 25 13:58 UTC] No.44532220[source]▶
> the flamewar detector

which simply detects the speed of new comments. The result is that it tends to kill any interesting topic where people have something to say

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2. edmundsauto ◴[11 Jul 25 20:50 UTC] No.44536674[source]▶
I think the intent is to de-amplify topics that produce shallow responses (the kind that can be quickly made and piled on). I still see plenty of those rise to the top of the feed though, so it's more of a "turn down the volume" than "mute".
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3. GeoAtreides ◴[11 Jul 25 21:35 UTC] No.44536986[source]▶
I completely disagree. I've seen lots of interesting threads with well thought responses flagged just because people were commenting too much.