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Tell HN: Use news.ycombinator.com/active
news.ycombinator.com/news (the default redirect from the root) is being subjected to user-triggered censorship. There is a lot that these days.
Here's how I trained my desktop browser (Chrome) to visit the /active URL when when I type "ne<RET">
1. Type "news.ycombinator.com/active" into the Chrome combo box and hit return.
2. Type "ne" into the Chrome combo box.
3. In the list of completions, click on the cross/delete icon to the right for the first few that aren't what you want.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you get the desired result.
- jgrahamc 9mo agoWhat "user-triggered censorship" are you talking about?
- deleted 9mo ago[deleted]
- lysace 9mo ago2-3 users with the proper standing pressing that flag link on a story.
- jgrahamc 9mo agoSo that would be me. I flag stories about US politics, for example.
- verdverm 9mo agothis sounds more like GP believes one of the conspiracy theories about how moderation works on HN
- lysace 9mo agoWhat conspiracy theory would that be?
- verdverm 9mo agothe one where a handful of people can coordinate to shadowban / flag unclear if its the one where the official HN mods (there are only 2) believed to be the ones doing this the reality is that the official mods are largely hands off, when they do get involved, more often than not it is to reverse a community flagging action, which is where most moderation happens, at a large enough community scale that a handful of people cannot wield this much flagging power If you believe unjust flagging has happened, the best recourse is to email the HN mods, the are very friendly, helpful and fair
- lysace 9mo ago[flagged]
- dang 9mo agoCrossing into personal attack will get you banned here. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696791 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696791 and don't post like this again.
- youngtaff 9mo agoWhy?
- jgrahamc 9mo agoI can read about US politics pretty much anywhere else.
- striking 9mo agoIf the story has enough votes before then, it is only downweighted, and only a bit at a time. Same with the flamewar detector, it just pulls stories down a bit. After the score is more than (I think?) 10 votes, it won't get entirely flagged unless mods decide it should.
- al_borland 9mo agoA bookmark would also work.
- lysace 9mo agoIt didn't work for me. Can't hurt though.
- Insanity 9mo agoWhat is /active?
- lysace 9mo agoMy understanding: It shows recent active topics, rather than upvoted/unflagged (not yet censored) topics. E.g. unlike /news, upvotes and flags are ignored in the ranking.
- lysace 9mo ago...And it's flagged, by maybe 2 people, and therefore censored.
- verdverm 9mo ago[flagged]
- lysace 9mo ago[flagged]
- dang 9mo agoYou've been breaking the site guidelines egregiously, including multiple personal attacks in this thread, and bad violations in other threads as well. If you keep doing this, we will ban you. No more of this, please. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696040 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696040 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695857 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695857 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661831 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661831 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661778 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661778 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46604765 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46604765 https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- lysace 9mo agoJust ban me now, please. I am done with the US and YC. What a disgusting country you have become. Your country threatening to take Greenland by force and you allowing all discussion around that to be flagged. Weak as hell. https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/garry-tan-trump-ai-crypto-interview/ https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/garry-tan-trump-ai-crypt... > Garry Tan is hopeful about Trump
- funwithumbers 9mo agoSo when a comment supporting racially charged eugenics went unflagged it was because "the community" decided it was the quality you want? But this.
- sudobash1 9mo agoI think RSS feed reader users are also unaffected by flags. At least hnrss.org feed followers are. I haven't tried news.ycombinator.com/rss. But as long as the post hits the RSS feed before it is flagged, your reader can pick it up. Honestly, for me, most of the time I am not interested in the flagged posts, but if you are, RSS is another way to see them.
- O1111OOO 9mo ago> I haven't tried news.ycombinator.com/rss. But as long as the post hits the RSS feed before it is flagged, your reader can pick it up. I can confirm.
- duxup 9mo agoActive is by far the best way to read HN.