[dang]

Yes, this was a stupid title (I just edited it), and yes, a lot of Wired posts are fluff and inappropriate for HN. We sometimes penalize sites (without banning them) when they're responsible for too much fluff. But doing so increases the risk of missing any substantial articles.

The last three from wired.com that got significant attention on HN were:

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7590644
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7610452
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7599422

Not the most substantial ever, but not bad.

If anyone wants to throw out some things we might try to address this problem—specifically, the problem of tech press websites that put out substantive pieces but also a stream of dreck—we're interested in addressing this. It's a significant impediment to the quality of HN.

[yukichan]

That's a tough problem. Outside of human moderation I don't have any idea. I'm glad you're aware of the problem though and are working on it. You guys work hard and we pay you nothing!

[dang]

Thanks. I may write some code to show moderators a view like /newest but only from sites marked lightweight. Then we can rescue any solid articles from the penalty. If we can save most of the solid articles, it would free us to mark more borderline sites as lightweight. An experiment worth trying, anyway.