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Hacker news engages in ideological vetting against users. For example, try posting content encouraging violence.

• sublinear 1mo ago
  HN only (lazily) filters content. It doesn't engage in ideological vetting, and doesn't need to either. A good amount of the commenters on this story probably would encourage violence, or at least agree with the sentiment on a different platform, yet here they are. I'm not even sure if they're real people or bots. We are having a discussion right now that would not be allowed if there was vetting.
  • a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
    What exactly do you think vetting means? Why do you think it's only allowed to happen up front?
    • deleted 1mo ago
      [deleted]
  • mitxela 1mo ago
    [dead]
  • mitxela 1mo ago
    HN's filtering is anything but lazy. Do you have showdead enabled in the settings? If not, enable it and refresh this comments page. A bunch of my comments were mysteriously deadened and I have no idea why - they aren't flagged. This was among them. Maybe it was a retaliation for talking about HN's filtering?
    • supriyo-biswas 1mo ago
      When a post receive a number of flags and downvotes higher than some configured threshold, they're marked as "[dead]".
      • mitxela 29d ago
        [flagged] [dead]. Just [dead] by itself means an auto filter.