Edward Snowden appears at Moscow airport and renews asylum claim • Hacker News Board

Re: Edward Snowden appears at Moscow airport and renews asylum claim

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Post by eli » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 3:49 PM UTC

mmariani wrote: post #30

eli wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is fair -- do we really need 4+ front page stories about this same event?

When something of value to this community I dare to say yes. For instance http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsmw5vkyxT1qba239.png

But most of them link to essentially the same thing, not different perspectives on the same event. It just fragments the discussion.

Re: Edward Snowden appears at Moscow airport and renews asylum claim

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Post by teawithcarl » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 3:54 PM UTC

eli wrote: post #28

teawithcarl wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To discern the subtle censorship HN is doing, just divide upvotes/minutes on the HN homepage. HN may have decided that "Snowden news" is not hacker news. Definitely, articles are getting flagged.

Which is fair -- do we really need 4+ front page stories about this same event?

The fact remains - the Guardian's LIVE BLOG, which has been the definitive news source of this worldwide news for the last 4-5 hours -- never made it onto HN's homepage.

Re: Edward Snowden appears at Moscow airport and renews asylum claim

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Post by mmariani » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 4:34 PM UTC

eli wrote: post #31

mmariani wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When something of value to this community I dare to say yes. For instance http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsmw5vkyxT1qba239.png

But most of them link to essentially the same thing, not different perspectives on the same event. It just fragments the discussion.

Yep you're right. In this case we should mainly ignore other sources than those picked by Snowden himself. At least for the sake of keeping the discussions concentrated under trusted posts.