Most major media sites have some good articles and many bad articles, in HN's sense of good/bad, so nearly all of those get mildly penalized on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... But there are plenty of ways for that penalty to get overridden by software or users or moderators.
dang|6 years ago
We don't care about site quality, we care about article quality: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....
Most major media sites have some good articles and many bad articles, in HN's sense of good/bad, so nearly all of those get mildly penalized on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... But there are plenty of ways for that penalty to get overridden by software or users or moderators.