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Was this deleted (or heavily down-weighted) for disagreeing with some admin's politics? I'm pretty sure when I saw this it was on the front page, now it's tota

by gort 10y ago

Was this deleted (or heavily down-weighted) for disagreeing with some admin's politics? I'm pretty sure when I saw this it was on the front page, now it's totally disappeared, except from the "New" tab. [All these downvotes, but no reply. Am I wrong about this? If so, say so.]

jrs235 10y ago
You are probably getting down votes for insinuating a conspiracy that the admins/moderators are doing this. If it was deleted you'd see [dead] next to the title. I would assume a more benign reason: other HN readers are flagging it.
- deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]
- dang 10y ago
  [dead] doesn't indicate admin action either, at least not directly. It happens when either (a) a lot of users flagged the submission; (b) the site is banned; (c) the submitter is banned.
  - jrs235 10y ago
    Thanks for the clarification and info Dan.
mcphage 10y ago
This site has shown up repeatedly on HN, and always been dismissed due to bad science. Maybe this article is different, but who's going to bother wasting their time to find out?
- throwaway4891a 10y ago
  Alt-right gonna keep shoveling billionaire propaganda and/or InfoWars/Unabomber beliefs onto every and any memetic channel, because shouting lies loud/often enough is sadly rewarded by changing sentiment in low-fact environments. (Doesn't really work so well on HN because of pervasive motivation for fact-challenging and argumentativeness.)
  - mcphage 10y ago
    Enough people believe "where there's smoke, there's fire", that if you keep pumping smoke over and over, some of them will eventually assume that there's a fire.
dang 10y ago
Users flagged it. Admins didn't touch it. Users were right to flag it, since this is a classic flamewar topic, and discussions of those tend to be predictable, ideological, and angry—none of which gratifies intellectual curiosity, which is what this site is for.
- mSparks 10y ago
  please take your life somewhere else.

by gort 10y ago

jrs235 10y ago

You are probably getting down votes for insinuating a conspiracy that the admins/moderators are doing this. If it was deleted you'd see [dead] next to the title. I would assume a more benign reason: other HN readers are flagging it.

deleted 10y ago
[deleted]
dang 10y ago
[dead] doesn't indicate admin action either, at least not directly. It happens when either (a) a lot of users flagged the submission; (b) the site is banned; (c) the submitter is banned.
- jrs235 10y ago
  Thanks for the clarification and info Dan.

mcphage 10y ago

This site has shown up repeatedly on HN, and always been dismissed due to bad science. Maybe this article is different, but who's going to bother wasting their time to find out?

throwaway4891a 10y ago
Alt-right gonna keep shoveling billionaire propaganda and/or InfoWars/Unabomber beliefs onto every and any memetic channel, because shouting lies loud/often enough is sadly rewarded by changing sentiment in low-fact environments. (Doesn't really work so well on HN because of pervasive motivation for fact-challenging and argumentativeness.)
- mcphage 10y ago
  Enough people believe "where there's smoke, there's fire", that if you keep pumping smoke over and over, some of them will eventually assume that there's a fire.

dang 10y ago

Users flagged it. Admins didn't touch it. Users were right to flag it, since this is a classic flamewar topic, and discussions of those tend to be predictable, ideological, and angry—none of which gratifies intellectual curiosity, which is what this site is for.

mSparks 10y ago
please take your life somewhere else.