hacker-news-undocumented VS hn-comments-owl

If you hover over the timestamp it points back to May 2nd as well.

This is probably from the Second Chance pool.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re...

Post with text insted of an URL get a penalty, so it's more difficult that they reach the front page (unofficial faq with more details https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re... )

My suggestion is to repost the link in a new submission (URL only, empty text), and add your explanation as as a comment.

> it's hard to engage without understanding the rules.

On the other hand, if you fully understand them it’s easier for spammers to circumvent them and changes would have to be done way slower (because they’d have to be documented every time).

You’ll sometimes find posts by dang explaining various policies, and there are some sources which try to document the undocumented:

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re...

It is my understanding some websites (like dev.to) are automatically killed due to a prevalence of low quality posts. But users with showed enabled can still see those and vouch for them, which brings them back alive. Posts may also be flagged by users for a variety of reasons such as the subject having been posted and discussed multiple times in the last few days, essentially making the new post a duplicate.

Hacker News is extremely strongly manipulated. What users see as popularity order is actually the order edited to the moderators' liking.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#behavi...

https://news.ycombinator.com/chinamod

Are there more?

[0]https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

[?]https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...

>30 karma, same as flagging: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re...

More things in the unofficial feature list maintained by minimaxir https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

Post with an URL in the text are penalized and it is harder for them to reach the front page. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...

Not me, because I can't yet, but I can shed some light.

That comment brings nothing to the table. An upvote would have given the same meaning. This is not reddit, and some of us would prefer it to remain different. Low effort comments tend to be downvoted, and interesting ones upvoted.

So uplift your comments, say why you are thankful, what will be your use case, where you wouldn't use the OPs icons, ... give some information, not just noise.

Here [0] is some more information about downvotes.

[0] https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvo...

Since lots of people are accidentally flagging on mobile and I'm currently revisiting my Hacker News extension and adding a Safari version, I'm adding something which will let you choose your preferred solution for this (hide the flag control or require a confirm):

https://github.com/insin/hn-comments-owl/issues/14#issuecomm...

Definitely not perfect. The default "collapse comment" buttons being right-aligned is pure insanity, IMO. They should be left-aligned so they're all in line with each other as you scroll down the page, so you barely have to move your mouse.

Fortunately this extension[1] takes care of that.

[1] https://github.com/insin/hn-comments-owl/

Also, proper hyperlink support in comments would be appreciated.

>Do you use browser plugins or user scripts?

https://github.com/insin/hn-comments-owl

I've also been writing a Godot app for HN off an on for a while now. It isn't ready for prime time but here's what it looks like[0].

>Also, what are your habits around HN?

I tend to lurk the new comments page. I check this site constantly, and use it as a distraction from more worthwhile projects. It's pathetic, this place is basically intellectual junk food.

[0]https://imgur.com/a/ciLRZO1

https://github.com/insin/hn-comments-owl does exactly that. Makes following threads so much better.

I use a plugin that shows new comment counts since my last visit and that highlights new comments[0].

HN is beta testing a similar feature. I'd encourage them to add the new comment count as well if they haven't.

[0]https://github.com/insin/hn-comments-owl