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In case it's not immediately obvious, today, June 4, is the anniversary of the event.
Yes,the event... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests HN looks like "A Quiet Place"
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This post is on the front page right now (edit: and now also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27396783 ) - that's the opposite of "disappearing". I'd have to see links to the other ones. Here's one tip for you guys, from years-long, world-weary experience: if you're coming up with sensational explanations in breathless excitement, it's almost certainly untrue. Edit: ok, here's what happened. Users flagged https:/…
Why is flagging anonymous?
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So if someone wants to bury a story, now they know how to do it.
Serious question: does flagging it as dupe by software automatically remove it? Or does a mod need to click a button at this point?
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If they were actually going to censor results wouldn't they censor the web results as well? What makes you think this isn't a technical issue.
You've got to be joking. Blanking out image results for a specific search string is a technical issue? This goes a little bit beyond assuming incompetence.
Qwant also shows no results. https://www.qwant.com/?t=images&q=Tank+man
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This post is on the front page right now (edit: and now also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27396783 ) - that's the opposite of "disappearing". I'd have to see links to the other ones. Here's one tip for you guys, from years-long, world-weary experience: if you're coming up with sensational explanations in breathless excitement, it's almost certainly untrue. Edit: ok, here's what happened. Users flagged https:/…
Modern censorship relies on using online communities' reporting, flagging and moderating systems to the censor's advantage.
You guys need to realize that you have a trump card (can I say that? or too soon?) that users of other platforms don't have: direct access to the people running the platform, who are willing to answer any question about it.
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The flagging history of all the users who flagged that post was very consistent. There was no connection to any specific topic (nor between the accounts, that I could see). Rather, they have previously flagged stories about things like cryptocurrency, ransomware, covid lockdowns, $BigCo flamewars, and lots and lots of scandals involving such subjects as Florida, Katie Hill, and the Chicago Police Department. Also, mo…
Sounds like you're saying it was flagged because veteran users knew it would be a shit show which it is. lol
Hmmm, DuckDuckGo image search shows some people standing next to tanks but not the tank man photo. I guess it makes sense since DDG uses bing for their search tech but it's pretty disappointing that you can get uncensored searches or privacy but not both.
If you search for tank man on DDG, the very first result is the Wikipedia article about said individual and the Tiananmen Square massacre. If they were intentionally trying to censor the search results, why would they only censor images?
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dang 27 minutes ago [–] [flagged] on submissions nearly always means users flagged it. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#flag https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397158
Then un-flag it, dang. You explained to me (and HN) recently that posts which are critical of HN itself are moderated less, not more, than others. The same standard should apply to posts in which a greatly disadvantaged group are standing up to a vastly superior power, all else being equal (credibility, tactics, nature of grievance, etc.) As with content concerning the events of June 4, 1989, in Tiananmen Square, Chi…
Btw I'm not necessarily agreeing that those were bad flags; but in cases like this, the community has the final say.