> I just asked something about WP8 a few days ago and within 10 minutes it was removed I can't speak for others, but for me the Microsoft dominance has been a

> I just asked something about WP8 a few days ago and within 10 minutes it was removed I can't speak for others, but for me the Microsoft dominance has been a pain until I started mastering Linux. I am very happy if it is confirmed that HN actively removes links about Microsoft, just as a cold personal feeling of street justice. So it's not HN, it's the crowd of geeks. On the other hand I don't see why HN would do that. Sounds like a loss of time and a PR risk. Maybe your content was average quality, maybe it wasn't cool enough, maybe it contained inappropriate contents. Please refer to the guidelines [1] to check whether your content had a chance to survive. [1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html