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Ask HN: Why did Google Manifesto article mysteriously disappear from HN?
I clicked on the front page article from HN, read it, and when I hit the back button to HN, it was gone. The article seemed reasonable, however, I'm not sure if it was accurate or not. Was it removed because of inaccuracies or because it provided support for the Google Manifesto or...what?
- franl 9y agoFor reference, this is the article: https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/no-the-google-manifesto-isnt-sexist-or-anti-diversity-its-science/article35903359/ https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/no-the-google-manif...
- detaro 9y agoA lot of these articles get flagged right now, the specific one actually had a big discussion yesterday already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14968626 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14968626
- franl 9y agoGotcha, thanks! Would've expected to just have it redirect the permalink to the existing thread rather than just load an empty page.
- gus_massa 9y agoI'm not sure that I understand your comment, but you can go to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=franl https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=franl and enable showdead to see the [dead] threads. Warning: There is a lot of crap in the [dead] threads.
- franl 9y agoI just meant that if a thread was killed because there's already an active discussion for it, I would've expected to be redirected to the active thread (rather than a blank page). Thanks for the tip!
- Adamantcheese 9y agoLook at the HN guidelines. Most of the Google talk recently has been "off topic".
- minimaxir 9y agoMore "redundant" than "off-topic."
- justforFranz 9y agoHN articles should be interesting or relevant.
- rsp1984 9y agoI Asked a similar question recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14967819 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14967819
- josteink 9y agoWhich got flagged too. I'd say this google flagging is contagious ;) If the topic is that touchy, I guess I'll abstain from making Google diversity-jokes.
- josteink 9y agoSeveral of the submissions got flagged for whatever reason. There were multiple threads though and the most active had 2000+ comments before it got killed (which is extremely high as far as HN submissions go).
- pottersbasilisk 9y agoAnything humanizing james is being flagged heavily.