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Re: Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

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Post by yodon »

zellyn wrote: post #37

Why did this just plummet to page three? Very weird. [Edit] A few seconds later, I cannot find it no matter how many times I click "more".

> Why did this just plummet to page three? Very weird.

People are getting into upvote/downvote wars over comments on the post. When that happens, the HN algorithm automatically downranks the post as likely to drive bad behavior among users.

Re: Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

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Post by sincerecook »

drawkward wrote: post #62
sincerecook wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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That's literally what the quote says: "From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled". And then it goes on to quote a long list of words that would be characteristic of woke social science "research".

Re: Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

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Post by drawkward »

sincerecook wrote: post #64
drawkward wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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That's literally what the quote says: "From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled". And then it goes on to quote a long list of words that would be characteristic of woke social science "research".

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Re: Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

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Post by thinkingemote »

ykonstant wrote: post #66

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Mods can unflag a story if they deem it important, high quality, giving new information etc. Also "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive". https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Perhaps users saw the quality of the comments and chose to flag, or perhaps they saw the quality of the submission.

I also think there's an auto-flag mechanism that kicks in automatically. I don't know how that works, but I'm guessing if I was to write one it would detect patterns of downvotes in comments, number of users who upvoted the submission vs number of comments, and the use of negative and emotional language.

Re: Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

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Post by sincerecook »

drawkward wrote: post #65
sincerecook wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's literally what the quote says: "From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled". And then it goes on to quote a long list of words that would be characteristic of woke social science "research".

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You're not being very charitable, have you considered that you may be letting your biases have an undue influence on your judgement here?

Re: Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

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Post by ykonstant »

thinkingemote wrote: post #68
ykonstant wrote: post #66

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Mods can unflag a story if they deem it important, high quality, giving new information etc. Also "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive". https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Perhaps users saw the quality of the comments and chose to flag, or perhaps they saw the quality of the submission. I also think there's an auto-flag mechanism that kicks in aut…

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