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Thanks for explaining! Can you maybe tell me why this question is hidden as well? Did it get flagged or trigger the same algorithm?
by croemer 3y ago
Thanks for explaining! Can you maybe tell me why this question is hidden as well? Did it get flagged or trigger the same algorithm?
- pvg 3y agoThere’s another bit in the faq about mailing such questions to the mods rather than posting them to hn so they usually get moderated and/or downweighted by user flags.
- dang 3y agoUsers flagged it, and correctly. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com." That's probably what pvg was referring to. Generally speaking it's too easy for meta discussion (i.e. discussion about the site, or discussion about discussion about the site) to take over the site.