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Often there is too much censoring going on but at least they appear to be a bit more transparent about it now. The one feature that I would like to see is to b

Often there is too much censoring going on but at least they appear to be a bit more transparent about it now. The one feature that I would like to see is to be able to collapse all comments by default (and read only top level comments). And often, comments critical of HN like this one first get many upvotes and then get sent back to a neutral 1... which is what just happened

dang 6y ago
It happened because some users upvoted it and others downvoted it. What did you think was happening?
- coronadisaster 6y ago
  I was even asked to change my nickname once, I think it was by you. The nickname was nothing bad, you just didn't like it.
  - dang 6y ago
    That doesn't sound like us, though of course it's always possible that we made a mistake. I've made hundreds of thousands of moderation decisions and tens of thousands of posts. No doubt thousands of those, at least, were wrong. If you're going to make a claim like this, you should provide a link so that readers can make up their own minds. When such complaints show up linklessly, it's usually because there's more to the story that the complaint is omitting (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20linkless&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).
    - coronadisaster 6y ago
      > If you're going to make a claim like this, you should provide a link so that readers can make up their own minds. fair enough: https://i.imgur.com/Iu7CLxN.png https://i.imgur.com/Iu7CLxN.png or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16834895 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16834895
      - bigyikes 6y ago
        I like Hacker News for the lack of political content. I feel overwhelmed by the amount politics is bleeding into all aspects of my life as of late. I would like to think that the same type of decision would have been made had your username been from the opposing political party.
        coronadisaster 6y ago
        > I would like to think that the same type of decision would have been made had your username been from the opposing political party. I find that hard to believe, but it is possible. https://i.imgur.com/D73De7f.png https://i.imgur.com/D73De7f.png
        nuclearnice1 6y ago
        Do you have any reason to believe dang would allow democratic flamebait nicks? You should state the reason if you have one. Otherwise, you are just slinging a baseless insult.
        coronadisaster 6y ago
        this was not meant as an insult... this forum is just very democrat, so it would not surprise me if it had a little bias
        nuclearnice1 6y ago
        To be specific: to your knowledge dan has never allowed any troll bait political nicks of any kind. Additionally: you have a feeling he might allow democratic troll nicks. the strength of that feeling ranges from not surprised if to hard to believe not depending on the day. Your evidence: claim that the forum is very democratic
      - kristiandupont 6y ago
        I don't believe you would choose a username like that (and to a lesser extent, your current one) for any other purpose than to explicitly provoke heated arguments. There are plenty of places on the web where you can go for those, I am happy that dang et al are making an effort to minimize them.
  - xeromal 6y ago
    He did say please

dang 6y ago

It happened because some users upvoted it and others downvoted it. What did you think was happening?

coronadisaster 6y ago
I was even asked to change my nickname once, I think it was by you. The nickname was nothing bad, you just didn't like it.
- dang 6y ago
  That doesn't sound like us, though of course it's always possible that we made a mistake. I've made hundreds of thousands of moderation decisions and tens of thousands of posts. No doubt thousands of those, at least, were wrong. If you're going to make a claim like this, you should provide a link so that readers can make up their own minds. When such complaints show up linklessly, it's usually because there's more to the story that the complaint is omitting (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20linkless&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).
  - coronadisaster 6y ago
    > If you're going to make a claim like this, you should provide a link so that readers can make up their own minds. fair enough: https://i.imgur.com/Iu7CLxN.png https://i.imgur.com/Iu7CLxN.png or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16834895 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16834895
    - bigyikes 6y ago
      I like Hacker News for the lack of political content. I feel overwhelmed by the amount politics is bleeding into all aspects of my life as of late. I would like to think that the same type of decision would have been made had your username been from the opposing political party.
      - coronadisaster 6y ago
        > I would like to think that the same type of decision would have been made had your username been from the opposing political party. I find that hard to believe, but it is possible. https://i.imgur.com/D73De7f.png https://i.imgur.com/D73De7f.png
        nuclearnice1 6y ago
        Do you have any reason to believe dang would allow democratic flamebait nicks? You should state the reason if you have one. Otherwise, you are just slinging a baseless insult.
        coronadisaster 6y ago
        this was not meant as an insult... this forum is just very democrat, so it would not surprise me if it had a little bias
        nuclearnice1 6y ago
        To be specific: to your knowledge dan has never allowed any troll bait political nicks of any kind. Additionally: you have a feeling he might allow democratic troll nicks. the strength of that feeling ranges from not surprised if to hard to believe not depending on the day. Your evidence: claim that the forum is very democratic
    - kristiandupont 6y ago
      I don't believe you would choose a username like that (and to a lesser extent, your current one) for any other purpose than to explicitly provoke heated arguments. There are plenty of places on the web where you can go for those, I am happy that dang et al are making an effort to minimize them.
- xeromal 6y ago
  He did say please