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I don't think you have to suggest conspiracy here. Any frequent reader of HN will know that HN is pretty aggressive with censoring posts that don't fit with the
by baron_harkonnen 6y ago
I don't think you have to suggest conspiracy here. Any frequent reader of HN will know that HN is pretty aggressive with censoring posts that don't fit with the overall ideology here, no matter how up-voted the content is.
I used to play a game with myself at predicting which posts I would see in the morning would be removed with in 30 minutes. My favorite example was an article on how important it is to openly talk about the impacts and causes of climate change. It made it to the FP, had lots of discussion and was removed within 30 minutes.
Posts that are likewise seriously critical of the startup world get remove very quickly.
In this particular case I don't think this post is necessarily being censored, but HN does do this very frequently so it's not a crazy question to ask.
- exolymph 6y agoThis is probably in response to user flagging.
- baron_harkonnen 6y agoI have no doubt, that's after all how ideology works. Have a small group of users trained to rapidly flag content that goes against a certain perspective allows a minority of opinion to have control over this community while at the same time allowing the moderators to wash their hands of everything.
- sneak 6y agoI created https://orangesite.sneak.cloud https://orangesite.sneak.cloud to track such things, as some things that make the front page that are off topic to HN are nonetheless interesting to me/good links. A lot of what gets modded is total crap, though, and is low-quality in addition to simply being off topic. Source here: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/orangesite https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/orangesite
- nosmokewhereiam 6y agoI appreciate this, it's a cool concept I haven't seen before. Does this exist for other sites, like reddit?
- sneak 6y agoNot that I know of. I'm glad it's useful to you.
- gerikson 6y agoI appreciate this site. It's a good way to get an overview of HN over 24h.
- saagarjha 6y ago> Any frequent reader of HN will know that HN is pretty aggressive with censoring posts that don't fit with the overall ideology here, no matter how up-voted the content is. Hacker News is quick to try to remove things that cause flamewars to erupt, yes. For some users this (regrettably) means that any controversial political or social topic gets a flag from them.
- Simulacra 6y agoModerators have emotions, and they will exercise power badly because of those emotions. I’ve seen nothing that shows HN moderators to be any different.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoPerhaps they do. I have never seen it here, though. I have seen, several times, the moderators having far more patience and restraint than I would have...