Hacker News does the exact same thing. Character strings like 'nsa' and possibly 'bitcoin' are heavily penalized by HN's algorithm. As are links to many sites.

Hacker News does the exact same thing. Character strings like 'nsa' and possibly 'bitcoin' are heavily penalized by HN's algorithm. As are links to many sites. It also seems like it was more a case of the head mods being lazy and not wanting to bring on more moderators. So they tried to automate moderation with AutoModerator.