For those that don't know, you can set a setting in your profile "showdead" that will show you the views that got "flagged" as not to be on hackernews. This is

For those that don't know, you can set a setting in your profile "showdead" that will show you the views that got "flagged" as not to be on hackernews. This is an inherently political thread and you probably want to know what people beyond the majority agree with. I mean in a literal sense it's quite funny that if you express a bad political opinion on HN you'll be hidden from view. That would seem counter-productive in inherently political discussions. I know HN doesn't want to get into politics, and maybe there's a discission to be had about priviledge there, but I think the first step would atleast to be seeing what people are actually saying.