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Ok, I'd love to understand why a perfectly regular piece of news was flagged, then. Definitively something not transparent going on, on a very sensitive subjec

Ok, I'd love to understand why a perfectly regular piece of news was flagged, then. Definitively something not transparent going on, on a very sensitive subject for the community.

firloop 9y ago
I think for better or worse, a lot of HN users don't like seeing politics on the homepage. Similar posts about other polticians get flagged quickly as well. I don't think it needs to be any more complicated than that. I do think politics has some place on HN. Some of my favorite threads last year were after Brexit and the U.S. presidential election results, and I was disappointed to see that two of my recent submissions about the middle east were flagged as soon as they began to gain traction.
- cannonpr 9y ago
  I agree it's not that uncommon to see stuff flagged and removed, especially of political nature, especially when it's something not viewed in a positive light by the moderators in HN. It's not exactly 'free speech guaranteed' on HN. From guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." This allows them a lot of leeway to take stuff down.
  - camillomiller 9y ago
    The rise Of a political class bred by the technology capital. How is this NOT a new phenomenon worthy of interest for anybody who's into technology and its impact on culture and society?
    - dang 9y ago
      That would certainly be an interesting new phenomenon if it existed. This article wasn't that. It's a rumor based on a hearsay report—in other words gossip. That kind of thing is rarely on topic for HN because it rarely has much substance. This site exists to gratify intellectual curiosity (i.e. curiosity about how the world works), not the other, more highly stimulating forms of curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
onewaystreet 9y ago
But it's not a perfectly regular piece of news. It's a rumor. Hacker News isn't a gossip site. If/when Sam announces he's running the announcement will not get flagged.
- angersock 9y ago
  Bah, we circlejerk on rumors of AAPL and Musk news all the time--it's a little late to put that genie back in the bottle.
reikonomusha 9y ago
> definitely something not transparent > something foul I wouldn't be so confident. The article doesn't have a lot of information, the article was posted before, and there's not a lot to discuss except maybe local Silicon Valley politics. It comes across as a "tame rumor" piece rather than an announcement of something factual. It doesn't seem like foul play, or that anything is being censored. It just doesn't seem super noteworthy.
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Ok, I'd love to understand why a perfectly regular piece of news was flagged, then. Definitively something not transparent going on, on a very sensitive subject for the community.

firloop 9y ago

I think for better or worse, a lot of HN users don't like seeing politics on the homepage. Similar posts about other polticians get flagged quickly as well. I don't think it needs to be any more complicated than that. I do think politics has some place on HN. Some of my favorite threads last year were after Brexit and the U.S. presidential election results, and I was disappointed to see that two of my recent submissions about the middle east were flagged as soon as they began to gain traction.

cannonpr 9y ago
I agree it's not that uncommon to see stuff flagged and removed, especially of political nature, especially when it's something not viewed in a positive light by the moderators in HN. It's not exactly 'free speech guaranteed' on HN. From guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." This allows them a lot of leeway to take stuff down.
- camillomiller 9y ago
  The rise Of a political class bred by the technology capital. How is this NOT a new phenomenon worthy of interest for anybody who's into technology and its impact on culture and society?
  - dang 9y ago
    That would certainly be an interesting new phenomenon if it existed. This article wasn't that. It's a rumor based on a hearsay report—in other words gossip. That kind of thing is rarely on topic for HN because it rarely has much substance. This site exists to gratify intellectual curiosity (i.e. curiosity about how the world works), not the other, more highly stimulating forms of curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

onewaystreet 9y ago

But it's not a perfectly regular piece of news. It's a rumor. Hacker News isn't a gossip site. If/when Sam announces he's running the announcement will not get flagged.

angersock 9y ago
Bah, we circlejerk on rumors of AAPL and Musk news all the time--it's a little late to put that genie back in the bottle.

reikonomusha 9y ago

> definitely something not transparent > something foul I wouldn't be so confident. The article doesn't have a lot of information, the article was posted before, and there's not a lot to discuss except maybe local Silicon Valley politics. It comes across as a "tame rumor" piece rather than an announcement of something factual. It doesn't seem like foul play, or that anything is being censored. It just doesn't seem super noteworthy.

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