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I agree with most of those policies, but "downranking of tutorials" seems kinda dumb. I could see it making sense for "how to React" drivel that people use for self-promotion, but I've learned a lot from 1-off tutorials I saw on HN first.

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Reasoning is HN’s goal, per dang, is to promote substantially new information — unless the tutorial fits this meaning, it’s less of a priority to feature than those posts that do meet it.

Worth noting there’s nothing stopping you from building custom HN searches like this to find tutorials posts, though this would not solve the likelihood of the community posting related comments:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Citation?

Sure, read all the comments by dang (aka HN’s main mod) here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23239164

I've learned a lot from 1-off tutorials I saw on HN first.

Could that reflect survivor bias (among all tutorials)?

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