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1. sethba+Xk[view] [source] 2013-11-26 13:51:31
>>jseip+(OP)
I find it really disheartening to learn that any article with "NSA" in the title is pretty severely penalized by HN's algos. This seems like one of the seminal issues of the decade, for this community in particular.
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2. ximeng+jl[view] [source] 2013-11-26 13:53:52
>>sethba+Xk
On the other hand there's an article with "N.S.A." in the title at the top of the front page now.
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3. joerin+0a1[view] [source] 2013-11-26 21:23:06
>>ximeng+jl
This remind me initial war with Gmail on trying to change colors of links in your HTML email body.

Google was replacing #000000 with blue links to make sure some won't deceive users that underscored black text is or is not a link. So of course people start using #000001 color, then this one got blocked they went into #000002. Gmail quickly realized they wont win this one :) so they revert it back to replacing only 000000.

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