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Not all are by members, I have seen 2-3 examples of posts which quickly make it to the front-page, and then vanish; the post is still on the "new" page and does
by jjgreen 3y ago
Not all are by members, I have seen 2-3 examples of posts which quickly make it to the front-page, and then vanish; the post is still on the "new" page and does not have a [flagged] or [dead] prefix. I can only assume that there is a "shadow flagging" mechanism which could only be applied by the moderators.
- LinuxBender 3y agoShadow-banned domains will show up as [dead] to everyone except the submitter. One hint to the submitter is that there will not be a discuss link. Submissions can be quickly de-ranked by flags and may fall off the front page before they are finally [flagged]. Flags count as heavy down-votes for a submission. Beyond that one would have to email Daniel dang to get more specific details. hn@ycombinator.com
- jjgreen 3y agoAll of the examples I've seen were not my submissions. In each case I searched the first 5-6 pages and nothing. The submissions on the "new" page remained untouched by prefixes for some time but were eventually marked [flagged]. My remarks on this some days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38122063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38122063 I'll not be emailing Dang, the moderators are free to do as they please, it's their forum. A bit more transparency would be appreciated though.