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Since I have routinely kept showdead on in my HN user profile, I have developed some sense of which stories are autokilled on submission (almost always because
by tokenadult 14y ago
Since I have routinely kept showdead on in my HN user profile, I have developed some sense of which stories are autokilled on submission (almost always because they are from banned domains) and which quickly die after submission (because multiple users with flagging privileges flag them). It looks like gawker.com stories are dying rapidly, perhaps being autokilled on submission, without regard to topic.
On my part, I think that most news about Michael Arrington is probably relevant to this community, but I don't count a story about someone's personal life as "news" until it comes from a reliable source. (After all, even Wikipedia tries to maintain this standard for biographical statements about living persons.) Having just searched Google News, I haven't seen any uptake of any reporting about Arrington in professionally edited news sources. If that kind of story is developed, it MIGHT be worth discussing here. (Meanwhile, we have plenty of other things to discuss here.)
- danso 14y agoI think the lack of "official" news sources that have covered this so far will itself become a topic of discussion. In the meantime, I think the fact that someone has put her name forward and is herself a part of the startup community is notable -- this isn't just the rumor mill. If the allegations are completely false, then libel suits are in order...but I don't think it's trivial for someone to make an accusation like this in public and continue to stick to it.