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Sure maybe today’s HN. Not the one I joined 12 years ago. When there were actual hackers.

nicehat 7y ago
Careful there. Comments like this are off-topic, political, overly meta and ungood. Please review our comment guidelines and refrain from ever pointing out HN flaws / changes, or we'll have to shadow-ban you without any accountability.
dang 7y ago
HN was Startup News before it was Hacker News. It has always had a strong entrepreneurial orientation.
- nicehat 7y ago
  There sure has been a shift though. You'd be just the guy to shed some light on these changes. For example, when did flagged comments become unreadable, rather than simply folded up by default? I'd like to see the logic on that one, if any was given at all. Was there an algorithm change that lets popular stories under active discussion on touchy subjects get disappeared with a few flags, or was that here from the start too? Are there any logs you can point me to that would reveal the scale of removed stories over time?
  - dang 7y ago
    It's hard to know what specifically you're referring to, but to the extent that I understand your questions, the answer is that things have worked that way for many years, certainly before I started moderating in 2012. There was no need to post all those sibling comments; I didn't reply sooner because I simply hadn't seen this yet. That's one reason why the site guidelines ask you to email hn@ycombinator.com instead of posting like this in the threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- nicehat 7y ago
  Not rhetorical questions above. Come on bud, make some kind of answer, or point me to where the answers are.
- nicehat 7y ago
  Dang do these questions bother you for some reason? If the answers aren't damning why avoid answering?
- nicehat 7y ago
  If this is not the appropriate channel to ask these questions, could you :do your job: and point me to it?
- nicehat 7y ago
  Cunt.

Careful there. Comments like this are off-topic, political, overly meta and ungood. Please review our comment guidelines and refrain from ever pointing out HN flaws / changes, or we'll have to shadow-ban you without any accountability.

dang 7y ago

HN was Startup News before it was Hacker News. It has always had a strong entrepreneurial orientation.

nicehat 7y ago
There sure has been a shift though. You'd be just the guy to shed some light on these changes. For example, when did flagged comments become unreadable, rather than simply folded up by default? I'd like to see the logic on that one, if any was given at all. Was there an algorithm change that lets popular stories under active discussion on touchy subjects get disappeared with a few flags, or was that here from the start too? Are there any logs you can point me to that would reveal the scale of removed stories over time?
- dang 7y ago
  It's hard to know what specifically you're referring to, but to the extent that I understand your questions, the answer is that things have worked that way for many years, certainly before I started moderating in 2012. There was no need to post all those sibling comments; I didn't reply sooner because I simply hadn't seen this yet. That's one reason why the site guidelines ask you to email hn@ycombinator.com instead of posting like this in the threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
nicehat 7y ago
Not rhetorical questions above. Come on bud, make some kind of answer, or point me to where the answers are.
nicehat 7y ago
Dang do these questions bother you for some reason? If the answers aren't damning why avoid answering?
nicehat 7y ago
If this is not the appropriate channel to ask these questions, could you :do your job: and point me to it?
nicehat 7y ago
Cunt.