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OP here. This post quickly made the front page of HN, but after just a few hours, has now disappeared and doesn't appear anywhere when you page through hundred

by mrbtc 7y ago

OP here. This post quickly made the front page of HN, but after just a few hours, has now disappeared and doesn't appear anywhere when you page through hundreds of top stories. Could this be censorship requested by investors, related to YCombinator? Does this sometimes happen? https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/impossible-foods#section-investors https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/impossible-foods#sec... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-impossible-foods-fundraising-exclusiv/exclusive-impossible-foods-raises-300-million-with-investors-eager-for-bite-of-meatless-burgers-idUSKCN1SJ0YK https://www.reuters.com/article/us-impossible-foods-fundrais...

NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Just guessing. 56 comments, 39 points. Not always true, but more comments than points is often an indicator that the spam protection will trigger. Which it sounds like it did here. So got weighted off the front page.
- mrbtc 7y ago
  Thanks, good to know. Hopefully its just that and a moderator can check in at some point.
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dang 7y ago
The thread triggered the overheated discussion detector, formerly known as the flamewar detector, which is software that kicks in when a discussion seems to be generating more heat than light. We monitor those software penalties pretty closely, and turn them off in cases where the thread was just happily active. I don't think this discussion meets that bar, though. Diet threads are surprisingly prone to repetitiveness and anger, as are threads about GMOs, and this one alas combines the two. > Could this be censorship requested by investors, related to YCombinator? Does this sometimes happen? No. YC wouldn't ask us to do something that stupid. The trust of this community is approximately 100% of the value that HN has for YC. Neither YC partners nor we on the HN side would ever jeopardize that.
- mrbtc 7y ago
  Thanks for your reply.

by mrbtc 7y ago

NeedMoreTea 7y ago

Just guessing. 56 comments, 39 points. Not always true, but more comments than points is often an indicator that the spam protection will trigger. Which it sounds like it did here. So got weighted off the front page.

mrbtc 7y ago
Thanks, good to know. Hopefully its just that and a moderator can check in at some point.
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dang 7y ago

The thread triggered the overheated discussion detector, formerly known as the flamewar detector, which is software that kicks in when a discussion seems to be generating more heat than light. We monitor those software penalties pretty closely, and turn them off in cases where the thread was just happily active. I don't think this discussion meets that bar, though. Diet threads are surprisingly prone to repetitiveness and anger, as are threads about GMOs, and this one alas combines the two. > Could this be censorship requested by investors, related to YCombinator? Does this sometimes happen? No. YC wouldn't ask us to do something that stupid. The trust of this community is approximately 100% of the value that HN has for YC. Neither YC partners nor we on the HN side would ever jeopardize that.

mrbtc 7y ago
Thanks for your reply.