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#22When I had more downtime I’d spend a lot of time browsing /new.
There’s a wealth of great blogposts that show up there which don’t always make it to the front page (understandable; we only have so much attention to give).
What I will say is that there is a ton of cruft that spams the board. Thinking of spammed blog posts from one or more accounts, sensationalist news, etc which wouldn’t provide much value here.
Flagging really helps on /new IME. It’s worth spending time there if you haven’t tried HN other than via the front page
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#23this is an excellent project, which highlights what a stellar job the moderators are doing
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#24> While I have no reason to doubt Daniel's good faith, it's hard to believe that HN users would be tired of LLM-related news.
I am. Completely sick of it! Thanks dang for your diligent moderation.
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#25Looking at the list of removed stories makes me really happy with the moderators here. They're all sensationalist, advertising for some company, clickbait, way off topic, or some combination of above. In fact, I don't see a single story that I personally feel should not have been removed. Thanks, mods.
dang has been doing a fantastic job for years now. How big is his team? What kind of tools are they using? Would love to read a writeup sometime, but I guess there are good reasons to keep this secret.
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#26I love HN and I think the moderators are doing a great job. But could one of the mods explain the logic with some examples from the Github repo?
just trying to see what makes the moderation good :)
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#27> I sent an email to the moderator. @dang, who was very kind and quick in his response, explained to me that the Story had been flagged by users even without being explicitly [flagged], and that he could therefore only hypothesize the causes of the flag. Maybe this is a consequence of Hacker News not having a way to downvote stories? I only flag stories that are blatant violation of HN's guidelines: SPAM, politics, r…
Yea, I suspect a sizable number of people use "flag" as a mega-downvote for things they passionately don't like, rather than for policy violations and spam.
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#28Only saw one Gary tan link removed. I thought I'd see more. Maybe it was only removed because it was a dupe? I'm referring to the "Gary tan tupac lyrics" one.
There was a bunch of Gary Tan links -- you can see in my comments I was arguing with a bunch of HNers today about whether he's right or wrong on that "Die Slow" tweet. Probably dang removed it because it's a dupe story.
He could have phrased it a little better but the people calling for his removal from YC are just plain silly.
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#29Don’t the vast majority of these get removed via flags from users?
Edit: I’m not asking a rhetorical question. There are a lot of comments in this thread thanking “the mods” and I didn’t realize there was a mod team cultivating the front page. Can anyone attest to this?
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#30"While I have no reason to doubt Daniel's good faith, it's hard to believe that HN users would be tired of LLM-related news." If you believe that HN is a hive mind and all users must believe in the exact same things, then yes, this is probably hard to believe. I however, am tired of LLM news, but I just simply ignore them as I'm well aware that many people here are very much interested in them. So at least an anecdot…
> You might find it hard to believe that some lean left while others lean right
And then you get those of us who are simultaneously left-of-left and right-of-right...