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This story is now 7 hours old with 164 points, but on page 5. I count 6 stories on the front page that are older than this with less points, e.g: 9. Virus s
by benlambert 10y ago
This story is now 7 hours old with 164 points, but on page 5.
I count 6 stories on the front page that are older than this with less points, e.g:
9. Virus stole poison genes from black widow spider (bbc.com)
155 points by kawera 10 hours ago | hide | 25 comments
Is HN censoring?
- dragonwriter 10y agoIt's political, so it's probably being flagged and demoted for that reason. It's probably triggering the flamewar detector, and getting demoted for that reason. There's probably no need for active censorship by the mods to explain the observed results.
- benlambert 10y agoThere was another submission that was on the front page half an hour ago with only a few comments (so no flamewar) and appears to have been directly removed by a mod: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12724507 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12724507
- sflicht 10y agoOf course the existing moderation policy constitutes a background of censorship, so your claims should be evaluated within that contest.
- dragonwriter 10y agoIn the sense that all systems of deciding what to publish and how are censorship, sure.
- EdHominem 10y agoThere's no read for "real" censorship if your algorithms take care of all the threads you'd find objectionable.
- sctb 10y agoPlease see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12727186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12727186.