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Was the removal from the front page algorithmic or a manual step by moderators? The lack of transparency with the soft censorship is alarming, particularly giv
by IntelAMDVia 8y ago
Was the removal from the front page algorithmic or a manual step by moderators?
The lack of transparency with the soft censorship is alarming, particularly given YC's financial conflict of interest.
- yorwba 8y agoSince the article title is different now, I assume a moderator looked at it at some point. IIRC, they check all instances of the flame war detector firing, to prevent false positives. In this case, they probably didn't find the comments salvageable. On the other hand, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19493033 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19493033 is currently on the front page after previously disappearing, so the mods seem to have intervened in that case.