Ask HN: Why is HN becoming a DEAD link graveyard?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40329937

by cannibalXxx • 2 years ago

4 9 2 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

NetOpWibby3• 2 years ago

Any references to support this?

adhvaryu• 2 years ago

[dead]

slater• 2 years ago

It's likely because you have the 'showdead' option enabled in your HN account settings.

(HN gets a LOT of spam submissions)

infotainment• 2 years ago

Seconding this; my HN feed got so much cleaner after I turned off the showdead option

mtmail2• 2 years ago

The number of submissions per hour keeps growing and so is the number of spam, off-topic or previously banned user accounts. I currently see 12 of the last 30 submissions are marked [dead] with one flagged, the others were auto-blocked by algorithms. (I have no knowledge about the algorithms other than observing as an outsider). More users are needed to go through the https://news.ycombinator.com/newest list and click 'vouch' on interesting submissions. I regularly do but even just reading every headline is time consuming.

NetOpWibby3• 2 years ago

How much karma is required to see the “vouch” option?

mtmail2• 2 years ago

I think 30 (https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...)

Ask HN: Why is HN becoming a DEAD link graveyard?

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