A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

Post by inopinatus » Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 1:34 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #90

inopinatus wrote: post #62

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Re. comments lingering high based on account karma, I've suggested the same but dang says not. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16441687 Perhaps such remarks are retaining position by their own merit. An experienced or high quality commentator may simply produce remarks that are better received.

Experienced or high quality commentators are significantly more likely to create comments that other Hacker News users are willing to upvote–I'm not sure that this translates to higher quality material, though.

Post by mises » Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 1:40 AM UTC

hombre_fatal wrote: post #14

minikites wrote: post #3

>Likewise, topics around diversity and inclusion in tech have gained lots of visibility over the past few years. However, despite these discussions not being off-topic, they tend to be flagged to death by users regardless. Time to see see if mentioning this very clear behavior gets this link flagged/killed. Privileged people usually don't like having their privilege challenged.

It's less about privilege being challenged, more about "inclusion" being used to justify just about anything and often going too far. Here's a comment in an official nodejs repository that got edited by a contributor to correct a pronoun on somebody else's post: https://github.com/nodejs/package-maintenance/issues/77#issu... (click the "edited" dropdown) That you yourself come right out the gate guns blazing about "p…

Post by rob » Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 1:47 AM UTC

Post by slg » Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 1:50 AM UTC

inopinatus wrote: post #84

slg wrote: post #67

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I don't know what to say other than there is something going on behinds the scenes that can be seen in play in this thread. My comment is 1 minute newer than another comment in this thread. My comment currently hasn't been upvoted yet is several spots higher in the thread. I tried upvoting the other comment and mine was still higher. My account has almost twice the karma and is older than the author of the other comm…

I upvoted your remark and it immediately dropped down the page. Evidently I am typhoid mary for unfavourable comment ranking... Joking aside, dang specifically denies there is a comment ranking adjustment due to account karma, but not other factors (such as account age, an unseen reputation field, your IP address/choice of web browser/#{1/user.name.size}). We are the blind to Hacker News's elephant in this.

Post by icebraining » Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 1:56 AM UTC

xnxn wrote: post #77

lxmcneill wrote: post #27

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I think this has less to do with respect and more to do with detracting from the original discussion e.g. source code integrity having nothing to do with human genitalia.

Gender is also not about genitalia, fwiw. I see that the author of the edited comment got defensive about it and went on an irrelevant rant about singular they. Wish people like that would grow up a bit.