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@dang Can we please stop removing Stallman discussions from the front page? I understand we want to keep things civil on HN, but the reality is that this dram
by lettergram 7y ago
@dang
Can we please stop removing Stallman discussions from the front page?
I understand we want to keep things civil on HN, but the reality is that this dramatically impacts this community and all developers - probably more than we realize on the surface.
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Discussing it and essentially letting everyone voice their thoughts is a way to both (a) come to consensus and (b) potentially see view points.
As it stands the “media” has a voice, most developers come to Hacker News.
- oska 7y agoI would imagine that it's been automatically removed due to a large number of people flagging it, rather than manually removed by the admins. My understanding is that automatic removals (from flagging) get reviewed and unremoved if the admins don't see a good case for the submission being flag-worthy.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoThere's also anti-flamewar system in HN that penalizes stories that accrue too many comments too quickly; I'm betting this is what makes this and similar stories drop from the front page very fast.
- doubleunplussed 7y agoIt's kind of a shame. Some issues just create a lot of discussion. This one is controversial, and maybe you could call it a flame war, but I'd prefer it stay up. I'm finding these threads by googling "Hacker News Stallman" every couple of days.