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dang wrote: post #461
ktsakas wrote: post #26

I 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 :)

I spent all day posting 70 or so comments in this thread trying to explain exactly that. If there are specific examples I haven't addressed yet, post links and I'll take a look!

I think my comment was early before all your responses, thank you for your work! I didn't expect to get an answer from Daniel Gackle himself - shows the amount of dedication.

Re: Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time

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dang wrote: post #431
smcin wrote: post #411

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's one from last week: "Ring will no longer allow police to request users' doorbell camera footage" (npr.org) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39138423 I posted an on-topic supporting quote to explain why this item was newsworthy and got one unhelpful one-word response and my comment got inexplicably flagged (not the commenter) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39138481 How did that slip past detection? Ho…

If I understand correctly, you have three concerns here: (1) the story was downranked off the front page; (2) your comment was flagged; (3) a comment that replied to you was not flagged. I'll try to respond to these in turn: (1) the story was downranked off the front page because the topic had already been discussed a bunch—for example in these threads, two days earlier: Amazon's Ring to stop letting police request d…

Your comment was flagged by users. We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case I think I know why: comments that do nothing but quote from the article, or try to summarize the article, are considered too formulaic by readers here. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but please do it in your own words and share your own thinking. To simply paste a quote from the article, or a summary, is too superficial. On HN the convention is to assume that readers are smart enough to evaluate an article for themselves.

(I copied this from the parent comment so I can link to it when this comes up in the future).

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