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This story went to the HN top and then dissapeared, after few minutes. Earlier something very similar happened to at least one of the posts you listed. I wonder

• cvbncvbncgbc 12y ago
  Points and time determine the position of a story. But if a moderator decides that he wants to, he can flag the story for a certain amount of position, 20, 40( next page )... You will probably only find such story only if you dig quickly enough using more. It is an effective way of removing content. Deleting it would cause uproar, but that way the story fades almost unnoticed even to the commenters who noticed it. There are also similar methods employed for specific users.
  • JohnDeleted 12y ago
    My IP was banned immediately after posting this comment. Good luck HN...
  • piokuc 12y ago
    But why would a moderator like to silence/censor this particular story? What was wrong with it? I thought it was rather interesting and important.
• dang 12y ago
  We buried it as a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7647958 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7647958, which covered Musk's news conference. The ULA suit wasn't mentioned in the title of that post but it was discussed quite a lot in the thread.
  • piokuc 12y ago
    Thanks for the clarification and link, I missed that post and comments.