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by hmyr0 8y ago
Thank you, I am very much familiar with the site guidelines. GitHub's Trending page has previously featured many similar projects, open letters and other non-software repositories, so I don't see how this is relevant here. I under
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by hmyr0 8y ago
In that case, maybe it would be beneficial to add that functionality and to encourage users to downvote instead of flagging. Currently, spam, malware and warez are treated the same as submissions some people consider uninteresting, and whil
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by hmyr0 8y ago
It didn't. I witnessed the repository (previously #1) suddenly disappear, despite it still gaining stars significantly faster than the other trending repositories. Another repository, 'deno', had been on Trending for a signif
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by hmyr0 8y ago
Thanks for your reply. I'm relatively new to HN, so please excuse my ignorance if I'm misunderstanding how the site works, but it seems like currently there is significant feature overlap between downvoting and flagging, and in ad
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by hmyr0 8y ago
Given that the first submission had over 70 points after a few minutes, I don't think this is the case. I do think that people are interested in this story, otherwise it would not have become so popular. Some people did not think the s
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by hmyr0 8y ago
I haven't tried it, but it seems to me that this only works if the PDFs are stored on the site and viewed online, so essentially just regular analytics with an embedded document viewer.
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by hmyr0 8y ago
Relevant reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17256425 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17245018 https://www.reddit.com/r/hnresistance/comments/8pbbue
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Let's Talk about Censorship on Hacker News
8 points by hmyr0 8y ago|4 comments
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by hmyr0 8y ago
Thank for for posting this. I posted a similar link which gained 70+ upvotes within minutes before being deleted with no explanation.
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by hmyr0 8y ago
I'm guessing the reason the repository is so popular is that people are worried about what Microsoft might do after acquiring GitHub. Things like... censoring content they disapprove of, for example.
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by hmyr0 8y ago
Unfortunately. GitHub used to be so strongly against censorship that they preferred financing a week of expensive DDoS mitigation over removing a repository. Two years ago, maintainers of open-source projects wrote open letters to GitHub, a
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by hmyr0 8y ago
I agree that editing other people's comments isn't the best thing to do, but the README clearly states that those types of comments weren't welcome. In addition, serious opinions like issue #60 weren't edited, only issue
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GitHub removes IF_MS_BUYS_GITHUB_IMMA_OUT repository from Trending(github.com)
75 points by hmyr0 8y ago|44 comments