4 ms·
>... because HN doesn't have enough repeats of the exact same discussions of cryptocurrency? Crying "censorship" here is a bit over the top. It seems to me tha
by null_object 5y ago
>... because HN doesn't have enough repeats of the exact same discussions of cryptocurrency? Crying "censorship" here is a bit over the top.
It seems to me that you've misinterpreted the flow of events that I've described.
There was never a chance to repeat "the exact same discussions of cryptocurrency" on HN, because both times the posts were flagged into oblivion almost instantaneously. They were never concurrent, because the first post was killed before I inadvertently 'duped' it.
- detaro 5y agoNo, the question of why we should have that topic again also applies to the first submission. Again, it's like you can't find enough "cryptocurrencies are bad" discussions in the past few weeks. I didn't flag it, but I understand why people do it, just because someone else has said the thing on Twitter doesn't make in an interesting or relevant new submission. (The same applies to other topics too, e.g. "Tesla good/bad" takes that don't discuss any or only trivial new developments)
- null_object 5y agoThe significant factor for me, was not that the flagging was due to 'discussion-fatigue' of a popular topic, but that in the case of both submissions (the original and my inadvertent dupe) it was used as an underhand way to counteract the extremely fast velocity to the top of the front-page.