HACKER Q&A
📣 Jimmc414

Would HN be open to more transparency in story ranking metrics?


"If HN were an art house theater, those principles would look like this: (1) don't show the copycat movies; (2) do show the interesting movies; (3) when the theater catches fire, stop the movie and deal with the fire." -dang

This seems fair and reasonable as do the links to the ranking explanations below.

I am requesting a consideration to open source the log (or logs from a point in time going forward) of weights used in the downranking of specific topics on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33992824

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34020263


  👤 Jimmc414 Accepted Answer ✓
To continue the analogy, if there is a fire in the theater that requires stopping a movie, should that make it into a public log?