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I tweeted about it from the event but the corresponding news.yc submission got killed. http://twitter.com/jeyjey http://twitter.com/jeyjey http://news.ycombin

• sabat 16y ago
  I truly worry about the overzealous killing of yc news stories. I can't be the only one who's noticed a recent uptick in the number of stories killed for no apparent reason.
  • SkyMarshal 16y ago
    Same thing happened to Reddit years ago. As if a battalion 4chan script kiddies had nothing better to do than sick a downvoting botnet on Reddit to decrease its signal:noise ratio. I hope they haven't targetted HN now too. :/
    • jey 16y ago
      Downvotes don't kill stories, moderators kill stories.
      • hga 16y ago
        I thought I read that enough flags if a story has less than 10 points will automatically kill it.
  • axod 16y ago
    1. It's a tweet submitted as 'news'. 2. It seems that the 'earth shattering' announcement was boring. I think there's a couple of good reasons why it got killed.
    • dhimes 16y ago
      Unfortunately, when they killed it I assumed that it was because it was a hoax submission. It was news that this community was waiting days (months?) to hear about, so, although perhaps not a full news story, it was certainly of interest here. And probably of more interest than "X reasons I love/hate Y" for a lot of us.
• ihodes 16y ago
  I'm not sure that HN generally looks too kindly on individual tweeds being submitted as news items.
• wglb 16y ago
  Probably would have had more credibility if you had made a blog post about it then put the link here on HN.