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[solved] Ask HN: Is HN silently deleting/blocking too long comments?

4 points by dathinab 6y ago

Wrt. the recent article about DST I posted a comment with two links to useful (but sadly German) youtube videos as well as something between a subscript/summery of this videos. Only to notice that this comment never appears at all, it organically was there for a moment and then it was permanent gone and any try to post is just silently does nothing... Well the comment was pretty long, so I guess HN might silently remove to long comments to prevent spam or similar? EDIT: The solution was I'm stupid and there is a easy to overlook More button at the bottom of the page. Supper embarrassing. Thanks for the answers.

istensta 6y ago
Not sure about comments, but shadow ban this is what HN does not disdain.
dathinab 6y ago
Just to be clear the comment was _insanely_ long, like 68 lines and a total of >4000 characters. So HN silently eating such a comment as a form of spam protections seems reasonable, I just wonder if that really is the case or some unlucky network error or similar got in the way.
- detaro 6y ago
  I still see the comment, are you sure you didn't just get confused because it wasn't on the first page of the discussion?
  - dathinab 6y ago
    Yes, how embarrassing. Due to some non-hackernews related reasons the More button was basically non visible to me.
    - detaro 6y ago
      easy mistake to make :) I'd be curious how many people aren't even aware that threads can span multiple pages - dang even sometimes pins a comment to remind people at the top.
      - krapp 6y ago
        I think this is one of those areas where the desire for minimalism in the UI works against the site. This is the only forum I've been to where people have to be reminded that pagination exists because making it obvious would violate the site's design ethos.
    - dang 6y ago
      Not just to you. The question comes up for others too. Hopefully before too long we'll be able to just go back to rendering entire pages without More links at the bottom.
- PaulHoule 6y ago
  It has links to something other than Wikipedia. That sets off a spam filter for many people right off the bat.
  - dathinab 6y ago
    Thanks, I already found out what the problem was. It turns out there is a easy to overlook More button at the bottom of the comment section :-)
tomcam 6y ago
You mean this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24316299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24316299
- dathinab 6y ago
  Yes, how does it come that I can see that link but not if I visit the comments section? Edit: Oh, see edit in title.
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