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How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)

205 points · 110 comments · theanonymousone

  1. kens · · focus · HN ↗
    Author here. I don't know why this popped up 13 years later, but hi :-)
    1. hyperlinerapp · · focus · HN ↗
      Do you think that the math is irrelevant now that the audience itself has become so woke that it’s basically an echochamber?

      I think HN became the CNN of tech news (not journalism but “journalism”).

      1. Akronymus · · focus · HN ↗
        > Do you think that the math is irrelevant now that the audience itself has become so woke that it’s basically an echochamber?

        I do very much believe that that is your own cognitive biases at work. While it certainly feels like there is a slant in a certain direction to me, I do see plenty of dissenting opinions from that perceived slant that get pretty much as much visbility. Most discourse here IS civil, too, which permits those dissents.

        If you do believe that there is bad faith discourse going on, you can always email the mod team to get that sorted out.

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