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Comment by ashelmire | Hacker News Reader

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This comment breaks the site guideline against insinuating astroturfing and bad faith, and it adds to nationalistic flamewar. Please don't post like this again. HN has plenty of users with legitimate reason to be on either side of this debate. Both sides need to respect each other, and if they can't, they can't post here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

All: if you really believe you're seeing organized manipulation on Hacker News, that's obviously a bannable offence, and you should alert us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can investigate. But please don't insinuate it in comments just to take a swipe in an argument. That's offside, and also mind-numbingly tedious.

https://imgur.com/a/HPJgSoq

Speaking of tracking, is there a site that tracks and draws a graph of the position of a stories on the front page, their score and number of comments?

http://hnrankings.info does at least some of what you ask.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with YCs new partnership in China.

I can't speak for anyone else but YC's activities in China have zero to do with how we moderate HN.

FWIW I didn't mean to imply any moderator action, just user flagging. And I know there are many reasons for that, some people don't want political things period, and so on. But just going by sheer quality of this article, I think it's sad that people who don't want to discuss it impede on the ability of those who do want to discuss it. When it went to #1 instantly I thought "this won't last" and made some screenshots... got distracted, looked again and saw it had sunk like a brick.

I made myself a little scraper, I hope it's okay to grab the front page HTML once a minute, or is that too often?

Once a minute is just fine. I think the robots.txt says 2 per minute.

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