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Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by postCountAintit »

lil_tee wrote: post #19
ImprovedSilence wrote: post #10

I would wager they are doing the same thing for HN. Also of note, ever since I started coming back here for the first time in several years, I couldn’t help but notice the high percentage of NYT articles posted here. I’m not saying they don’t fit the HN mold/interest bucket, but I was just surprised to see so many headlines from them here, on HN, so regularly. I think NYT is playing a strong grassroots/AstroTurf/soci…

FWIW, nytimes.com accounts for ~4% of all posts that appear on the HN homepage: https://toddwschneider.com/dashboards/hacker-news-trends/?q=...

Okay, but honestly, counting submissions is the weaker metric.

There ain't a fucking day that goes by that NYT isn't on the fucking main page, and it AIN'T because the articles are that good.

You mean to tell me NYT is just naturally in the top 30 submissions, ALL DAY LONG, for 100% of days, for months at a time?

Even above 90% of days gets to be slightly disgusting for a supposedly diverse news aggregator to stay "intellectually stimulating."

The articles that get vote brigaded to the surface are fluffy, political and shallow. Also, with copious political bias, according to the usual NYT leanings.

You know they're looking at the github repo and operating accounts to circumvent the usual vote ring detectors.

How many other outlets do this? Maybe arstechnica and techcrunch. Not even wired is on the main page this much. Not BBC. Not CNN.

I've stopped clicking NYT articles because I've grown to hate their ultra polarized reporting and journalism, ever since November 2016.

Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by reaperducer »

ImprovedSilence wrote: post #10

I would wager they are doing the same thing for HN. Also of note, ever since I started coming back here for the first time in several years, I couldn’t help but notice the high percentage of NYT articles posted here. I’m not saying they don’t fit the HN mold/interest bucket, but I was just surprised to see so many headlines from them here, on HN, so regularly. I think NYT is playing a strong grassroots/AstroTurf/soci…

ever since I started coming back here for the first time in several years, I couldn’t help but notice the high percentage of NYT articles posted here

The Times has had a dedicated Science section for as long as I can remember (going back at least to the 80's), even pre-dating the existence of its Sports section by a decade or more. And it's well-known for being on top of business news and current events. So it just seems natural that its articles align with the interests of many in the HN crowd.

Over the last ten years, especially the most recent five, the NYT has done a lot of leading-edge things in the arenas of technology, transparency, and disclosure. It seems to be more and more a tech-friendly publication, in a good way. (See also: The Guardian.)

It's always done the hard data mining, but more frequently it's showing people how things are done behind the scenes, and done some very interesting Apple-quality experiments in presenting its articles online.

And if you're into design, the printed version of the Sunday Times is full of different interesting delights each week.

/Not an employee, just a print/online subscriber.

Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by [deleted] »

grahamburger wrote: post #24
lil_tee wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW, nytimes.com accounts for ~4% of all posts that appear on the HN homepage: https://toddwschneider.com/dashboards/hacker-news-trends/?q=...

That's quite a lot! One of every 25, so probably at least one on the front page at any time? Are there domains that account for considerably more than 4%? Would be interesting to see a top ten list.

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Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by lil_tee »

grahamburger wrote: post #24
lil_tee wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW, nytimes.com accounts for ~4% of all posts that appear on the HN homepage: https://toddwschneider.com/dashboards/hacker-news-trends/?q=...

That's quite a lot! One of every 25, so probably at least one on the front page at any time? Are there domains that account for considerably more than 4%? Would be interesting to see a top ten list.

nytimes.com is #3 domain of late, really #2 behind only github.com if you exclude ycombinator.com (all of the Shows, Asks, etc.)

Top 10 domains by # of items on front page since 1/1/18:

   rank |     domain      | count 
  ------+-----------------+-------
      1 | github.com      |  2041
      2 | ycombinator.com |  1911
      3 | nytimes.com     |  1818
      4 | bloomberg.com   |  1028
      5 | medium.com      |   826
      6 | techcrunch.com  |   735
      7 | theguardian.com |   666
      8 | github.io       |   615
      9 | bbc.com         |   558
     10 | arstechnica.com |   493

Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by larkeith »

Good on them! Being able to view responses to their content is ideal for both the publisher and the readers, this seems like it's the internet working at its best.

I wonder how viable this might be as a service?

Side note: The current title ("NYT Tracks Reddit Conversations Around nytimes.com Content") is quite editorialized, and somewhat misleading.

Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by MeltySmelty »

ImprovedSilence wrote: post #10

I would wager they are doing the same thing for HN. Also of note, ever since I started coming back here for the first time in several years, I couldn’t help but notice the high percentage of NYT articles posted here. I’m not saying they don’t fit the HN mold/interest bucket, but I was just surprised to see so many headlines from them here, on HN, so regularly. I think NYT is playing a strong grassroots/AstroTurf/soci…

astroturfing rag

Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by Coffeewine »

lallysingh wrote: post #9
h3throw wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm told that Amazon and Booking both have huge production Perl code bases so some major orgs still care about it

Good point. There's probably good money in the "host all the stuff that's old and scary" business.

My org is still writing new code in perl5. The degree to which it's unappealing is, in my opinion, greatly overstated.

Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by matt4077 »

ImprovedSilence wrote: post #10

I would wager they are doing the same thing for HN. Also of note, ever since I started coming back here for the first time in several years, I couldn’t help but notice the high percentage of NYT articles posted here. I’m not saying they don’t fit the HN mold/interest bucket, but I was just surprised to see so many headlines from them here, on HN, so regularly. I think NYT is playing a strong grassroots/AstroTurf/soci…

Or, just maybe, the New York Times is the world's leading newspaper and therefore happens to publish a large number of articles, some of which overlap with HN's collective interests?

Re: To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

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Post by sctb »

lallysingh wrote: post #4

The article's actual title is "To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around New York Times Articles, We Built a Slack Bot." There's some strong editorializing in this post's title.

Thanks, we've updated the title from “NYT Tracks Reddit Conversations Around nytimes.com Content” to that of the article with a more mechanical shortening.
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