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I may have missed a post about it, but: is this new transparency in moderation/etc/etc a deliberate and ongoing new policy? And to the extent that it is, can we
by matthewowen 12y ago
I may have missed a post about it, but: is this new transparency in moderation/etc/etc a deliberate and ongoing new policy? And to the extent that it is, can we expect that buried posts will always have an explanation of why they were buried?
I could understand why that might not happen, but it is generally more useful to understand why something was buried than it is to know why something narrowly avoided being buried.
- dang 12y agoI've been posting these comments regularly for months now. It's not really a new policy so much as an artifact of someone being public as moderator and focused on HN. There's no way PG could have done this; it takes far too much time. I'm not sure I can keep doing it either. When we kill or bury a post, yes, we've been posting comments saying why. People use the terms "kill" and "bury" to mean a whole lot of different things, though, so it doesn't follow that any given expectation will be met. Also, there are other things that we do (e.g. penalizing posts for being off-topic or threads for being flamewars), that users do (voting and flagging), and that software does (voting ring detector, flamewar detector), all of which affect what appears where on HN.