I think it'd be a lot better if you just killed submissions or banned sites outright. Burying submissions is as bad as if Google started manually tweaking searc

I think it'd be a lot better if you just killed submissions or banned sites outright. Burying submissions is as bad as if Google started manually tweaking search results. Google only deindexes webspam, they never manually adjust PageRank. People already think HN is a YC propaganda machine, which long time users know isn't true, and this kind of thing just fuels the conspiracy theories.