"We think that the most interesting and thought-provoking discussions in Hacker News get regularly flagged or moderated, so we collect stories that reached the front page but exited earlier (typically due to flagging or manual moderator intervention) or interesting stories with a lot of activity and points that were prevented to reach the front page."
I see two items for today that I saw on the front page. I'm reminded of, back in the days newspapers and newsmagazines were king, seeing activist lists of "top stories censored by the corporate media" that inevitably included major cover stories.
For such a "meritocratic" community as HN aspires to be, people here are often very finicky (and would rather upvote low-effort content marketing and boring VC news). As are HN's nebulous and often arbitraty "penalty" factors that nudge the frontpage ranking.
There constantly are many hidden gems (or just good posts) that get flagged resulting in collateral damage.
It's almost as if HN was a mini version of what many people rightfully are bashing here - a mini-Facebook!
Browse /new often, folks, for what you won't know you had missed!
Just looking at the stories that have high activity / votes but are flagged or removed from the front page (like this project does) is often a treasure trove. It's something similar to "sort by controversial" on Reddit.
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[ 2.0 ms ] story [ 23.9 ms ] threadThere constantly are many hidden gems (or just good posts) that get flagged resulting in collateral damage.
It's almost as if HN was a mini version of what many people rightfully are bashing here - a mini-Facebook!
Browse /new often, folks, for what you won't know you had missed!