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Interesting how this disappeared from HN's front page without being dead-ed. I seem to recall the 'Programming, Motherfucker' link meeting a similar mysterious
by davidhollander 15y ago
Interesting how this disappeared from HN's front page without being dead-ed.
I seem to recall the 'Programming, Motherfucker' link meeting a similar mysteriously early demise, despite its 800+ upvotes.
- davidw 15y agoIt probably got flagged a lot, most likely for being Internet Drama with little interest for the wider world.
- davidhollander 15y ago>most likely for being Internet Drama with little interest for the wider world. At least it was better than TechCrunch.
- zedshaw 15y agoHehe, yeah, and I'm probably in their weird secret block list they vaguely mention. The thing to remember is most of the entrepreneurs claim to want a meritocracy but don't really. They don't want people to criticize their products, call bullshit on their marketing, or make something better to compete with them directly. When they say "meritocracy" they mean "everything I make has merit". So, in keeping with that, they like to take communities like HN and pretend it's a free market of ideas supporting the meritocracy, then secretly manipulate your opinions behind the scenes by killing articles and blocking people they just don't like. But hey, it's fun talking to everyone late at night between hacking bouts. :-)
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- statictype 15y ago>The thing to remember is most of the entrepreneurs claim to want a meritocracy Do they really? I think most people here are fine with pg weighing down on what he thinks is inappropriate. I have no idea what it is that got blocked or killed here so won't comment on that but I don't think many people on HN are under the delusion that this is a free market community of any sort.
- bryanlarsen 15y agoThis disappearance gives me another unexpected reason for using hckrnews.com instead of the front page.