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I think you and I know why at this point. HN and YC as a whole are all in on this administration[1]. It's the reason why it's going to get censored. [1] https:

I think you and I know why at this point. HN and YC as a whole are all in on this administration[1]. It's the reason why it's going to get censored. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42774698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42774698

dang 2y ago
> I think you and I know why at this point. I know it's satisfying, but that's a risky way to think if you care about the truth. Users flagged the submission and it also set off the flamewar detector, a,k.a. the overheated discussion detector. No mods or admins touched this post. , or even saw it until someone sent an email about it. Then I turned off the flags and the flamewar penalty.
- x11antiek 2y ago
  Hey dang, can you explain why these threads were flagged then? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42790729 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42790729 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42716926 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42716926 (please don't say "paywall", there are so many submussions under the paywall from US-based magazines) Who are these "users" and how to stop them? Thank you.
  - pjc50 2y ago
    Users are people other than you who use the website. HTH.
  - dang 2y ago
    We can only guess why users flag things, but in those cases I'd guess it was because they were follow-up indignation pieces with lots of inflammatory energy but little intellectually interesting information. It could also have to do with the titles being flamebait (which of course is related). You guys do get that HN is not a site for arguing angrily about the hottest political controversies and/or divisive personalities? If so, it shouldn't be a puzzle why community members flagged those posts: that kind of thing is not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
zo1 2y ago
As someone that is in that cohort I think you are alluding to, I see just as much "anti-right" or "anti" or "anti Trump" type actions when it comes to flagging and downvotes. It's not at all obvious to me that one side owns the narrative here and only one set of ideas / directions are promoted or censored. I have to be very careful in my support for the "wrong" side in touchy topics lest I be down-voted and flooded with low-effort jabs by frankly very smart and knowledgeable people. These people can bash me with their "intelligence" despite them many times being wrong or not understanding my point or seeing that we have simply have different principles manifesting in different views. This transcends tech, politics and any other realm we regularly discuss here.
latexr 2y ago
> HN and YC as a whole are all in on this administration[1] You made it sound like you were linking to evidence, but it’s just another post by yourself making the same unsubstantiated claim. That’s worth nothing. If anything, dang has shown over time they avoid silencing these discussions, it’s obvious users are the flaggers.

dang 2y ago

> I think you and I know why at this point. I know it's satisfying, but that's a risky way to think if you care about the truth. Users flagged the submission and it also set off the flamewar detector, a,k.a. the overheated discussion detector. No mods or admins touched this post. , or even saw it until someone sent an email about it. Then I turned off the flags and the flamewar penalty.

x11antiek 2y ago
Hey dang, can you explain why these threads were flagged then? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42790729 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42790729 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42716926 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42716926 (please don't say "paywall", there are so many submussions under the paywall from US-based magazines) Who are these "users" and how to stop them? Thank you.
- pjc50 2y ago
  Users are people other than you who use the website. HTH.
- dang 2y ago
  We can only guess why users flag things, but in those cases I'd guess it was because they were follow-up indignation pieces with lots of inflammatory energy but little intellectually interesting information. It could also have to do with the titles being flamebait (which of course is related). You guys do get that HN is not a site for arguing angrily about the hottest political controversies and/or divisive personalities? If so, it shouldn't be a puzzle why community members flagged those posts: that kind of thing is not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

zo1 2y ago

As someone that is in that cohort I think you are alluding to, I see just as much "anti-right" or "anti" or "anti Trump" type actions when it comes to flagging and downvotes. It's not at all obvious to me that one side owns the narrative here and only one set of ideas / directions are promoted or censored. I have to be very careful in my support for the "wrong" side in touchy topics lest I be down-voted and flooded with low-effort jabs by frankly very smart and knowledgeable people. These people can bash me with their "intelligence" despite them many times being wrong or not understanding my point or seeing that we have simply have different principles manifesting in different views. This transcends tech, politics and any other realm we regularly discuss here.

latexr 2y ago

> HN and YC as a whole are all in on this administration[1] You made it sound like you were linking to evidence, but it’s just another post by yourself making the same unsubstantiated claim. That’s worth nothing. If anything, dang has shown over time they avoid silencing these discussions, it’s obvious users are the flaggers.