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Ask HN: Why are the Elon Musk topic submissions being suppressed?

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Re: Ask HN: Why are the Elon Musk topic submissions being suppressed?

#11

Post by theCrowing »

Narretz wrote: post #8
theCrowing wrote: post #5

Sorry but we don't need to discuss every little shitty thing that happens three times per day just because you missed the thread with hundreds of replies when it was on the frontpage.

The new submissions are about Musk banning journalists that he claims to have doxxed him, i.e. shared links to the flight tracker for his jet. However, some journalists have already come out and said they never shared the link. So it does seem worthy of discussion beyond the general change in Twitter policy.

Use the search function [0] [1]. Not even 12 hours old threads with combined over 1300 comments and that's not enough for you on HN?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008064

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008383

Re: Ask HN: Why are the Elon Musk topic submissions being suppressed?

#12

Post by detaro »

Narretz wrote: post #8
theCrowing wrote: post #5

Sorry but we don't need to discuss every little shitty thing that happens three times per day just because you missed the thread with hundreds of replies when it was on the frontpage.

The new submissions are about Musk banning journalists that he claims to have doxxed him, i.e. shared links to the flight tracker for his jet. However, some journalists have already come out and said they never shared the link. So it does seem worthy of discussion beyond the general change in Twitter policy.

and there's a thread with thousand+ comments about that, so clearly it is being discussed?

Re: Ask HN: Why are the Elon Musk topic submissions being suppressed?

#14

Post by [deleted] »

theCrowing wrote: post #11
Narretz wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The new submissions are about Musk banning journalists that he claims to have doxxed him, i.e. shared links to the flight tracker for his jet. However, some journalists have already come out and said they never shared the link. So it does seem worthy of discussion beyond the general change in Twitter policy.

Use the search function [0] [1]. Not even 12 hours old threads with combined over 1300 comments and that's not enough for you on HN? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008064 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008383

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Re: Ask HN: Why are the Elon Musk topic submissions being suppressed?

#15

Post by [deleted] »

detaro wrote: post #12
Narretz wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The new submissions are about Musk banning journalists that he claims to have doxxed him, i.e. shared links to the flight tracker for his jet. However, some journalists have already come out and said they never shared the link. So it does seem worthy of discussion beyond the general change in Twitter policy.

and there's a thread with thousand+ comments about that, so clearly it is being discussed?

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Re: Ask HN: Why are the Elon Musk topic submissions being suppressed?

#16

Post by Narretz »

theCrowing wrote: post #11
Narretz wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The new submissions are about Musk banning journalists that he claims to have doxxed him, i.e. shared links to the flight tracker for his jet. However, some journalists have already come out and said they never shared the link. So it does seem worthy of discussion beyond the general change in Twitter policy.

Use the search function [0] [1]. Not even 12 hours old threads with combined over 1300 comments and that's not enough for you on HN? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008064 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008383

Thanks, yes I should have looked more thoroughly.

Re: Ask HN: Why are the Elon Musk topic submissions being suppressed?

#17

Post by smt88 »

Cheiree wrote: post #7

The world does not revolve around Elon Musk. And it says Hacker News in the title, not Twitter/Elon News. In fact if I would not see anything about Elon Musk or Twitter for a week then it would make me supremely happy.

I honestly don't think anyone here thinks what Elon is doing is important. Most of the comments seem to find it entertaining and validating.

It's fun when you've spent years reading pro-Musk brigades on every social media platform saying that Musk is one thing, and then he's proving himself to be a different thing altogether.

Re: Ask HN: Why are the Elon Musk topic submissions being suppressed?

#19

Post by trasz2 »

theCrowing wrote: post #11
Narretz wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The new submissions are about Musk banning journalists that he claims to have doxxed him, i.e. shared links to the flight tracker for his jet. However, some journalists have already come out and said they never shared the link. So it does seem worthy of discussion beyond the general change in Twitter policy.

Use the search function [0] [1]. Not even 12 hours old threads with combined over 1300 comments and that's not enough for you on HN? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008064 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008383

And none of them is on the front side, despite the upvotes.

Re: Ask HN: Why are the Elon Musk topic submissions being suppressed?

#20

Post by fragmede »

Jensson wrote: post #6

HN downranks threads with many comments, that is the main thing. Think of each comment as a downvote and it makes more sense why those quickly disappears from the frontpage.

We can't downvote submissions, but we can flag them, which is way more punishing in the algorithm, and it's why they disappear from the front page so quickly, despite being highly up voted.
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