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We've had at least 2 posts from cliqz in the past few days. I have genuine issues with my short-term memory after having recovered from a coma so I don't know w

We've had at least 2 posts from cliqz in the past few days. I have genuine issues with my short-term memory after having recovered from a coma so I don't know whether this is a glitch where I keep seeing the same posts or they keep getting reposted.

dang 7y ago
Your short-term memory is fine in this case, and I hope that is part of a complete recovery. They're doing an "Advent Calendar" series where they're posting one a day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21676252 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21676252 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21684708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21684708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21694980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21694980 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21716860 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21716860 (not even a day ago). This is a problem for HN because users here are not used to this sort of repetition—indeed, we moderate HN explicitly to dampen repetition, because the point of the site is curiosity and curiosity withers under it (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20withers&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). The more these posts show up with what for HN is a crazy frequency, the more likely users here are to experience it as a barrage and start to complain. On the other hand, these articles are well-crafted, contain a lot of information, and would normally be fine HN submissions. The topic of building a new search engine is intrinsically interesting. It also resonates with a lot of themes that get discussed a lot on HN (concerns about big tech and so on). So this is a different situation than the usual marketing onslaughts that HN gets subjected to, where the content is crappy, users flag it away, and moderators squash what users missed. I'm not sure what to do about this yet.

dang 7y ago

Your short-term memory is fine in this case, and I hope that is part of a complete recovery. They're doing an "Advent Calendar" series where they're posting one a day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21676252 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21676252 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21684708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21684708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21694980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21694980 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21716860 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21716860 (not even a day ago). This is a problem for HN because users here are not used to this sort of repetition—indeed, we moderate HN explicitly to dampen repetition, because the point of the site is curiosity and curiosity withers under it (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20withers&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). The more these posts show up with what for HN is a crazy frequency, the more likely users here are to experience it as a barrage and start to complain. On the other hand, these articles are well-crafted, contain a lot of information, and would normally be fine HN submissions. The topic of building a new search engine is intrinsically interesting. It also resonates with a lot of themes that get discussed a lot on HN (concerns about big tech and so on). So this is a different situation than the usual marketing onslaughts that HN gets subjected to, where the content is crappy, users flag it away, and moderators squash what users missed. I'm not sure what to do about this yet.