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What's with the title? You're not alleging censorship in the body of your post - instead you pose it as a question about what the correct policy for marking dup
by aptwebapps 9y ago
What's with the title? You're not alleging censorship in the body of your post - instead you pose it as a question about what the correct policy for marking dupes should be.
- Mayzie 9y agoWell, I guess I just can't see any reason why a mod of HN would prefer the older thread over the more active one, and thereby removing its position from the front page and stop any further HN discussion altogether on the topic. Even the older thread is not present at all on the front page, or any subsequent pages. Anecdotal, but it certainly _feels_ like an attempt to censor the topic at hand. Now that I think about it, I agree that my choice of title wasn't the best to be quite confrontational, but it is what spurred my creation of this thread.
- Mayzie 9y agoWow, I did not intend for this thread to get on the frontpage, I was merely trying to get an answer on why, and treated HN like Reddit. I need to look into how the ranking algorithm works more. I certainly wasn't trying to start anything. Sorry. :-/
- walterbell 9y agoYou helped return the story+comments to the front page, thanks.
- falcolas 9y agoThe active discussion was closed, the "correct" discussion is nowhere to be found without searching explicitly for the discussion. Whether censorship was the intent or not, it's the effective result.
- hnthrowaway627 9y agoThat's the mechanism by which HN does censorship. For another example see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12285545 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12285545 This was marked as a duplicate of a PDF version of this essay that was submitted over 270 days prior to that being submitted. It was high up on the front page and then gone out of nowhere. I fully expect dang to come and remove this comment but we'll see.
- wongarsu 9y agoHe is alleging that HN purposefully uses questionable dupe marking decisions to make the react discussion undiscoverable, effectively censoring it.