I understand what these graphs are saying about the things they're measuring, but I'm not sure that I understand how it comes to the conclusion that this story has been artificially deranked? I'm no algo expert, I'm just curious how others are interpreting this.
Ironically, the link being analyzed by the post is one part of a dupe group, and so all members of it would be suffering extra downranking by attentive folks like me (I was too slow today, though) flagging dupes and reposts in alignment with the guidelines. But the algorithm algorithm used here has no context for that, and the page linked under the claimed neutral title is for only one post in the group rather than the front page — which shows 100% of submissions behaving out of spec versus the predictions, indicating a consistent failure of prediction.
Note that the mods responded to the boringly predictable accusations that resulted from checks notes marking an article as a duplicate submission, and their response applies to the unstated accusations underlying this post as well. (I’m not a mod, in case that’s left unclear by the phrasing above.)
Flagged for title misrepresentation: this is not a submission about a site that analyzes HN, this is a submission of a claim being made over a single post, except that no claim is presented beyond the title. Write an actual blog post and post that instead next time.
Suppression implies intent, no? There was/is no intent to suppress this story. It got penalized by software for various reasons (mostly unrelated to the topic), as well as flagged by users. We've turned that off now.
If, instead of assuming sinister deeds, you (or anyone) would simply give us a heads-up at hn@ycombinator.com, we could fix it sooner. This eventually happened.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 21.4 ms ] threadNote that the mods responded to the boringly predictable accusations that resulted from checks notes marking an article as a duplicate submission, and their response applies to the unstated accusations underlying this post as well. (I’m not a mod, in case that’s left unclear by the phrasing above.)
Flagged for title misrepresentation: this is not a submission about a site that analyzes HN, this is a submission of a claim being made over a single post, except that no claim is presented beyond the title. Write an actual blog post and post that instead next time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109654
Suppression implies intent, no? There was/is no intent to suppress this story. It got penalized by software for various reasons (mostly unrelated to the topic), as well as flagged by users. We've turned that off now.
If, instead of assuming sinister deeds, you (or anyone) would simply give us a heads-up at hn@ycombinator.com, we could fix it sooner. This eventually happened.