Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

The hellbanning algorithm seems to be overly aggressive lately. If you showed a link on dead items (where "flag" would be on a live comment) that said "Ok?" or something similar, the users could flag items back in to existence.

I feel like there have been a lot of good comments lately that have been autokilled because of a past transgression and we're missing interesting conversation.

There are lots of links like this one on HN:

Facebook is using a trick to make people use faceb...

Changing it to include the complete, uncropped post title would be a nice addition:

Facebook is using a trick to make people use faceb...

Then you could see the complete post name on hovering the link.

An option of submitting a "better URL" would be nice. This is in the context of the blogspam, i.e. when the original submission links to a page that merely rehashes the content of another page.

One option is to allow users suggest alternative url and then have the submission URL automatically changed to a suggested one once latter was submitted N times. Perhaps add a "url" option next to the "flag", make it open a page with an existing URL in the text input field and let the user change and submit it.

I know this is being done by hand by mods at the moment, and I am suggesting automating this process.

This has been said already on very old posts, but an API would great. General retrieving/posting/searching capabilities would be great. For authenticated users, being able to list the user's own up votes and down votes. Would make it easier to see what the user enjoyed/hated.