HN shadow banning certain news links?

by ycombonator • 6 years ago

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goose847• 6 years ago

Not entirely sure what I’m looking at in the pic. Could you give a bit of detail in a comment?

GraemeL• 6 years ago

Their submission got flagged so it vanished from the new links page. They think HN is doing it automatically for certain sites.

ycombonator2• 6 years ago

The link was not flagged it was just hidden to other users but not shown to users who are not logged in. Please see my explanation below.

tomohawk• 6 years ago

Yes, HN automatically flags articles from certain sites. You can see the post with your account, but if you look with a different account, you'll see it is flagged and not visible for most people.

ycombonator2• 6 years ago

The link is not flagged, it was automatically hidden. Why show it when I am logged in vs show something else for user who is not logged in ? Isn’t that “shadow banning links” ?

jlgaddis• 6 years ago

FWIW, I can see the link on the "new" page, whether logged in or not.

I don't know if HN "shadow bans" certain sites or not but, TBH, I hope they do.

dang• 6 years ago

Of course, some sites are banned on HN. zerohedge.com has been banned for a long time, because its articles tend to be sensationalized, which makes them off topic here. A user vouched for that submission, which unkilled it. Then other users flagged it, and a moderator penalized it as sensational, or at least as not rising above the noise level amid the flood of covid-19 submissions. This is all routine.

HN shadow banning certain news links?

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