Aside from visiting HN I also see the stories percolate up my Facebook feed via following https://www.facebook.com/hnbot/, and this story made the cut.
Indeed, a lot of terrible stories, often flagged off the front page, end up being posted by that bot. Given that only a small, small percentage of HN stories get posted to their Facebook feed it is mystifying, and certainly isn't the best of the best. Asking generally to any who know: Is it only if a story has a Facebook-ready sized image?
Well, there's two things that contribute to what's seen from that bot: what the bot is actually doing, and what Facebook's algorithms end up displaying in your feed, neither of which we have much insight into :(
Aside from visiting HN I also see the stories percolate up my Facebook feed via following https://www.facebook.com/hnbot/, and this story made the cut.
Indeed, a lot of terrible stories, often flagged off the front page, end up being posted by that bot. Given that only a small, small percentage of HN stories get posted to their Facebook feed it is mystifying, and certainly isn't the best of the best. Asking generally to any who know: Is it only if a story has a Facebook-ready sized image?