Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment order> ‘Philip Cross’ has edited @georgegalloway ‘s wikipedia page over 1800 times. This, and many other political arguments I have seen on it before, really makes me think that Wikipedia would benefit from a policy where a sufficient number of individual complaints against a user who has passed some threshold of number of edits to a single article (say 100) would be automatic grounds to block the user from further edits to the article, regardless of fault. I understand that…
Rather than to rehash an 2018 debate about a particular editor social media posts is in conflict with their edits on Wikipedia, where did the discussing end up afterward? I think the answer is in an Arbitration a month or so after this article was written (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests...). I did not find any more Arbitration Requests after this date, and the topic ban has not been appealed.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 886
- Total comments
- 443
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-18 | Time to ditch Wikipedia? | swalladge | 4 | 0 |
| 2018-05-19 | A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaignFirst breakout · Best thread | yasp | 748 | 366 |
| 2021-04-13 | A Wikipedia editor's campaign to discredit anti-war campaigners (2018)Latest 20+ point return | hliyan | 134 | 77 |