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HN admins - if you're going to shut this one down as well, could I appeal to you to at least give a reasoning why? Killing posts like these without for example

by epaga 10y ago

HN admins - if you're going to shut this one down as well, could I appeal to you to at least give a reasoning why? Killing posts like these without for example dang providing at least a quick reasoning why leaves a bad taste in my mouth...

ww520 10y ago
People flag it. I just did. Not sure whether the HN admins have anything to do with it.
- epaga 10y ago
  Flagged is one thing, a previous discussion was additionally set as "dead". As far as I know that can only be done by an admin, no? If it was all an automatic thing done by the system, then I have no issue with it. BTW, it looks like they turned off the flagged state of this post and are giving the discussion a chance. Well done. Let's hope the comments here don't devolve into silly political bashing...
  - darklajid 10y ago
    As far as I'm aware stuff can be flagged to death by crossing a threshold/without admin intervention - but I'm not 100% sure tbh.
  - jrs235 10y ago
    Enough flags turn it dead. Mods not required.
    - epaga 10y ago
      OK, I had not realized this. Thanks.
ptaipale 10y ago
Not an admin, just a user, but read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. There's nothing very interesting in vilifying Thiel.
- 4ad 10y ago
  On the contrary, the fact that we had, and continue to have numerous threads, and thousands of comments means it is very interesting to the community.
  - jrs235 10y ago
    The fact that it keeps getting flagged to death shows something too.
    - ythl 10y ago
      Politics creep into every news aggregate out there. I kind of like the idea of Hacker News not being one of them.
    - tnones 10y ago
      Indeed it does. Flags are disabled here, and now we get a long and extensive back and forth of all the sorts of arguments normally shut down as bigoted tout court. Excuses from above about it being good for the community strikes me as eerily similar to the "national security" argument: in order to defend a free community from those who seek to harm it, we don't need to uphold the principles that it was founded upon. Hm.
- striking 10y ago
  I'd agree with you, but they have a point in not moderating this one away, since it's critical of YC.
debacle 10y ago
I flagged the last post. I flagged this post. The vast majority of people don't care. Peter Theil is probably a completely fine human being and has valid reasons for supporting Trump, and I'm much more concerned about the people who feel that is donation alone is enough to vilify him.

by epaga 10y ago

ww520 10y ago

People flag it. I just did. Not sure whether the HN admins have anything to do with it.

epaga 10y ago
Flagged is one thing, a previous discussion was additionally set as "dead". As far as I know that can only be done by an admin, no? If it was all an automatic thing done by the system, then I have no issue with it. BTW, it looks like they turned off the flagged state of this post and are giving the discussion a chance. Well done. Let's hope the comments here don't devolve into silly political bashing...
- darklajid 10y ago
  As far as I'm aware stuff can be flagged to death by crossing a threshold/without admin intervention - but I'm not 100% sure tbh.
- jrs235 10y ago
  Enough flags turn it dead. Mods not required.
  - epaga 10y ago
    OK, I had not realized this. Thanks.

ptaipale 10y ago

Not an admin, just a user, but read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. There's nothing very interesting in vilifying Thiel.

4ad 10y ago
On the contrary, the fact that we had, and continue to have numerous threads, and thousands of comments means it is very interesting to the community.
- jrs235 10y ago
  The fact that it keeps getting flagged to death shows something too.
  - ythl 10y ago
    Politics creep into every news aggregate out there. I kind of like the idea of Hacker News not being one of them.
  - tnones 10y ago
    Indeed it does. Flags are disabled here, and now we get a long and extensive back and forth of all the sorts of arguments normally shut down as bigoted tout court. Excuses from above about it being good for the community strikes me as eerily similar to the "national security" argument: in order to defend a free community from those who seek to harm it, we don't need to uphold the principles that it was founded upon. Hm.
striking 10y ago
I'd agree with you, but they have a point in not moderating this one away, since it's critical of YC.

debacle 10y ago

I flagged the last post. I flagged this post. The vast majority of people don't care. Peter Theil is probably a completely fine human being and has valid reasons for supporting Trump, and I'm much more concerned about the people who feel that is donation alone is enough to vilify him.