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The linked blog post is a complaint about a different blog post[1] being briefly popular on HN and then dropping off into the weeds rapidly, becoming flagged, a
by ssl-3 11mo ago
The linked blog post is a complaint about a different blog post[1] being briefly popular on HN and then dropping off into the weeds rapidly, becoming flagged, and mysteriously becoming unflagged.
Obviously, this must the result of proactive, willful censorship or maybe some kind of deep-state conspiracy.
By extension, it could never have been the result of HN's automated flamewar detector reacting to 29 of the 145 comments being from just one user who seemed to spend most of their efforts telling others that they were wrong.
(That user may in fact be authoritative on the topic, but it looks like a flamewar from my own 10,000-foot overview of this discussion that I have zero personal interest in.)
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44617309 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44617309
- the-anarchist 11mo agoYou are right with that you say about the "29 of the 145 comments being from just one user", in the post that you linked. However, the complaint the author made was not related to the post that you linked. The flagging and unflagging occurred on this post [1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45667615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45667615
- ssl-3 11mo agoWithin this blog post on HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44617309 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44617309 is hyperlinked, verbatim, as "the post in question". Was there some other aspect to this blog post under this article under this very posting, here, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46312812 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46312812, that is more in question -- perhaps one that I missed? Did I not read deep-enough into the rant? (If I did not, then I'm really not sure how much I care. But I do suspect that my care is approximately zero for the output of someone who very deliberately puts overtly-patronizing, browser-fucking shit like this on their blog: https://imgur.com/a/bOkSsd4 https://imgur.com/a/bOkSsd4 )