HACKER Q&A
📣 billme

Dark Patterns on HN


Maybe I am biased, but increasingly feel HN is subject to number of dark patterns related to potentially meritless rep-mining, voting, flags, etc.

What are examples if any that users are seeing and how might they be better addressed?

Would HN consider being more open about their policies or allowing trusted 3rd party to audit the effectiveness of these policies?

  👤 uberman Accepted Answer ✓
You seem to have asserted there is meritless rep-mining and provided no details. Then you ask others to provide details about where they see meritless rep-mining. I know you already know about this repository documenting HN

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...

So I'm really not sure what more you are after with respect to how things work.

Why would HN be interested in having a 3rd party audit their policies? What possible positive outcome would be in it for them?