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My own post was taken down before, so I'm pretty sure some form of censorship exists. I don't know if it's enforced by mods or implemented otherwise, but that's a minor point.
Don't say mods censor anti-YC stories if it's users who are doing it.
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My own post was taken down before, so I'm pretty sure some form of censorship exists. I don't know if it's enforced by mods or implemented otherwise, but that's a minor point.
Posts can be flagged by users. If you were overtly offensive, I wouldn't be surprised.
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Posts can be flagged by users. If you were overtly offensive, I wouldn't be surprised.
I wasn't offensive at all.
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Don't say mods censor anti-YC stories if it's users who are doing it.
My post wasn't downvoted, but was visible only to me (no other user could see it). It looked like a scheme to kill my post without me realising it.
There are a lot of people on HN, and a lot of people with downvote privilege, and there are a lot of people who just generally downvote because they disagree with something. Even if your opinion is completely positive, if people disagree, and a lot of people see it, you will get downvoted just because they disagree (and no one will reply to your comment to disagree, it's a drive-by-downvote). There's also verificatio…
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HN mods repeatedly say that they do not penalise people who post negative stuff about YC or YC companies. But negative comments tend to get downvotes, (avoid gratuitous negativity) so people posting negative stuff should try to support it.
My own post was taken down before, so I'm pretty sure some form of censorship exists. I don't know if it's enforced by mods or implemented otherwise, but that's a minor point.
Beyond that, we'd need to know what post you're talking about. If you'd like to provide a link, we can look into it.
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My own post was taken down before, so I'm pretty sure some form of censorship exists. I don't know if it's enforced by mods or implemented otherwise, but that's a minor point.
We go out of our way not to kill stories and comments that are critical of YC or YC-funded startups. When such posts break the HN guidelines, we may penalize them, but always less than we would if the story were about something else. That's a pretty big deal around here—it's literally the first rule of HN moderation. Beyond that, we'd need to know what post you're talking about. If you'd like to provide a link, we ca…
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My own post was taken down before, so I'm pretty sure some form of censorship exists. I don't know if it's enforced by mods or implemented otherwise, but that's a minor point.
We go out of our way not to kill stories and comments that are critical of YC or YC-funded startups. When such posts break the HN guidelines, we may penalize them, but always less than we would if the story were about something else. That's a pretty big deal around here—it's literally the first rule of HN moderation. Beyond that, we'd need to know what post you're talking about. If you'd like to provide a link, we ca…
I'd love to hear a non-malicious explanation for that.
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We go out of our way not to kill stories and comments that are critical of YC or YC-funded startups. When such posts break the HN guidelines, we may penalize them, but always less than we would if the story were about something else. That's a pretty big deal around here—it's literally the first rule of HN moderation. Beyond that, we'd need to know what post you're talking about. If you'd like to provide a link, we ca…
This comment is shown as fine to me, whereas it really is dead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10245424 I'd love to hear a non-malicious explanation for that.
In the future, please do what the HN guidelines ask and email such questions to us at hn@ycombinator.com. I only saw this thread by accident.
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We go out of our way not to kill stories and comments that are critical of YC or YC-funded startups. When such posts break the HN guidelines, we may penalize them, but always less than we would if the story were about something else. That's a pretty big deal around here—it's literally the first rule of HN moderation. Beyond that, we'd need to know what post you're talking about. If you'd like to provide a link, we ca…
HN not only shadow bans commenters, they will also poison placement of comments (algorythmically) in a sub thread based on who writes the comment.
Lots of software affects both story and comment rankings. "Poison" is a rather tendentious way to describe that. HN's goal is high quality in all things, to the extent it's possible. That doesn't just happen by default; systems are necessary, and it gets harder as numbers grow.