Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA
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Re: Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA
#2The AMA says that Citizenfour will be on HBO tonight, in the UK it'll be on Channel 4, 11:05 Wednesday and 4od after that.
Re: Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA
#3What's the reason this is being flagged?
Re: Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA
#4What's the reason this is being flagged?
"Snowden", "NSA", and similar keywords are auto-flagging triggers. The HN team has algorithms in place to minimize discussion and awareness of these topics.
See: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
"It appears that any article with NSA in the title gets an automatic penalty of .4".
Re: Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA
#5What's the reason this is being flagged?
"Snowden", "NSA", and similar keywords are auto-flagging triggers. The HN team has algorithms in place to minimize discussion and awareness of these topics. See: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really... "It appears that any article with NSA in the title gets an automatic penalty of .4".
Which is why they should be upvoted again and again.
Re: Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA
#6What's the reason this is being flagged?
"Snowden", "NSA", and similar keywords are auto-flagging triggers. The HN team has algorithms in place to minimize discussion and awareness of these topics. See: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really... "It appears that any article with NSA in the title gets an automatic penalty of .4".
I thought you are being smart-ass/sarcastic with saying that "Snowden" and "NSA" attract a penalty. I wonder how much %age of users know about the penalty system. I predict that it is a very small number. Personally, I am very disappointed after knowing this information.
I hope, at the very least, the homepage should have a disclaimer saying that the links are not a collective effort by the community but rather a filtered list by administrators.
Re: Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA
#7What's the reason this is being flagged?
"Snowden", "NSA", and similar keywords are auto-flagging triggers. The HN team has algorithms in place to minimize discussion and awareness of these topics. See: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really... "It appears that any article with NSA in the title gets an automatic penalty of .4".
More specifically, HN tries to avoid inflammatory topics that cause a lot of ultimately fruitless discussion ("flamewars"), typically identified by news items with more comments than votes. Political topics are frowned upon for causing this.
I disagree that HN wants to minimize "awareness" of these topics, but mods have been clear in the past that, while they agree the topic is important, it distracts HN away from the tech/web/startup topics they want HN to focus on
Re: Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA
#8What's the reason this is being flagged?
Honestly penalty was required because there was a point where HN front page was only NSA and Snowden, like was DC based think tank.
Re: Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA
#9Similar to the HN penalty, reddit also seems to have some Snowden countermeasures in effect. It was a very popular IAmA, but the Android AMA app, displayed only 2 answers for it, and the 3 people who wanted to answer, Laura Poitras, Ed Snowden and Glen Greenwald, were limited to about one answer per 10 minutes, so for the whole hour they could answer about 10 questions. This limits usability and civil interactions a bit.
People should really choose boards without such censorship in place.
Re: Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA
#10Well, when we look back on history, the progress of Western civilization and human rights is actually founded on the violation of law....Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to government, but our agency in determining our futures.
There are lots of really interesting and cogent replies from Snowden on this thread already, I'd encourage everyone to check it out.