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Ask HN: Why I can see some of my posts only if I'm logged in?
I noticed that some of my posts are visible to me only (if i'm logged in) otherwise no one can see them. why is that?
- chippyty 2y agoPlease help me out here, otherwise i will have to think that HN is against free speech
- illuminant 2y agoApparently it's a link aggregator and not a free speech micro blogging platform :/
- chippyty 2y agoA link aggregator that can decide which links to show. It wasn't anything controversial just a video showing unsolicited connections made by firefox, to support my theory that browsers developers contribute to mass surveillance.
- taylodl 2y agoHN is a moderated discussion group that's intended to promote curious discourse. As such, community members may flag submissions and comments (if they have enough karma, and no, I don't remember how much karma you need for each). It's not perfect, but that's the intent. AFAIK, everybody has the ability to downvote. That's how moderation is done. You can learn more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- pvg 2y agoJust do what the faq suggests and email hn@ycombinator.com. You're much more likely to get an answer there than here.
- krapp 2y agoHacker News is aggressively moderated, it's very much "quality over freedom" as far as speech goes. I don't know why people keep expecting it to be like 4chan, just because it has "hacker" in the title.
- chippyty 2y agoOne thing is flagging (just like this), another thing is showing a different version of the site based on the user, the latter is scammy and is meant to give users the felling that their post is there (while it's not) but no one is looking at it. Showing a different website to users is something really nasty.
- illuminant 2y agoThose are your flagged entries. Some of my best are flagged. Someone who has responded at or under the flagged part can see it. This strangely allows threads to go on which only a reducing number of viewers can see.
- chippyty 2y agoBut it was just posted, and it never showed up on my phone. I suspect there is more to this and I'm having very bad feelings about HN Now.
- chippyty 2y agoI'm gonna comment next with the url i was trying to promote and see if others can see it too
- chippyty 2y agothis was the url:https://blog.icecatbrowser.org/blog/20240702/what-does-firefox-do-when-you-start-it/ https://blog.icecatbrowser.org/blog/20240702/what-does-firef...
- jgrahamc 2y agoDoesn't surprise me that this was flagged. It's a video that doesn't have much content. I suspect it would not have been flagged if you'd captured the list of domains Firefox is connecting to and done some analysis on it. Otherwise it's just showing that Firefox connects to a bunch of stuff. Hard to know if that stuff is bad or not.
- chippyty 2y agoCan you see it?
- chippyty 2y agoI believe this was my last interaction with this service. Thanks for hiding my contributions, i'm done.
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