How is Hacker News moderated? I noticed that dang acts on certain comments from new accounts immediately. Does he have a feed of comments from the new accounts, from karma 1 accounts, and is this feed a public API?
Ask HN: How Is HN Moderated?
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Re: Ask HN: How Is HN Moderated?
#2If you click the "Lists" link at the bottom of this page, you'll see that there are feeds of submissions and comments by new accounts. You can also see all newly submitted articles using the "new" link at the top of the page (which is how I found this one).
But not all moderation is done by the official moderators (dang and sctb). Users (who have enough karma points) can also flag articles and comments. If an article/comment is marked as "[flagged]", that means it was killed by users flagging it.
Re: Ask HN: How Is HN Moderated?
#3We have all kinds of software that you could call feeds, but they're mostly not public. https://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories and https://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments are, though.
Re: Ask HN: How Is HN Moderated?
#4If you click the "Lists" link at the bottom of this page, you'll see that there are feeds of submissions and comments by new accounts. You can also see all newly submitted articles using the "new" link at the top of the page (which is how I found this one). But not all moderation is done by the official moderators (dang and sctb). Users (who have enough karma points) can also flag articles and comments. If an article…
This makes a good moment to thank you for how much of that you've done—a genuine community service, even though most HN users don't know about it.
Re: Ask HN: How Is HN Moderated?
#5If you click the "Lists" link at the bottom of this page, you'll see that there are feeds of submissions and comments by new accounts. You can also see all newly submitted articles using the "new" link at the top of the page (which is how I found this one). But not all moderation is done by the official moderators (dang and sctb). Users (who have enough karma points) can also flag articles and comments. If an article…
I have seen articles with "flagged" but do not understand what this actually means in practice, as those articles are not removed from view. Does it mean that comments are closed?
Re: Ask HN: How Is HN Moderated?
#6If you click the "Lists" link at the bottom of this page, you'll see that there are feeds of submissions and comments by new accounts. You can also see all newly submitted articles using the "new" link at the top of the page (which is how I found this one). But not all moderation is done by the official moderators (dang and sctb). Users (who have enough karma points) can also flag articles and comments. If an article…
I have seen articles with "flagged" but do not understand what this actually means in practice, as those articles are not removed from view. Does it mean that comments are closed?
Sometimes an article gets killed by flagging, but later gets revived by somebody "vouching" for it. In this situation, the article keeps the [flagged] designation, but is alive again (and comments are reopened).
If an article is dead due to flagging, you won't see it anymore (unless you have "showdead" set in your profile).