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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 app

by 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.