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This may be a community, but it is not a democracy. The management and moderators of this website are free to do what they wish with the content that is submitted and the members are free to take their posts and opinion elsewhere if they don't like the policies.
Part of the role of Reddit, HN and other social media is to motivate you, the collected developers out there, to write your own version and fix all the problems you see in the system (software + admins + "culture") as it is now. That includes me. Maybe after the wedding, kid's baseball game, co-worker's going away party, and stuff this weekend.
It's not broken enough to drive most people away, and that's its prime benefit. But what I'd give for the same site, moderated differently...
What confuses me is why many submissions are killed off and hidden. For example, right now, if you click new is show dead on you will see this grayed out: 15.[dead] Oracle's Larry Ellison enthusiastically applauds NSA spying (techeye.net) 1 point by Mitt 17 minutes ago | flag | discuss I copy and paste it in to google, and find what looks to me like a reasonable article. It even has a CBS video source(1). It is a leg…
HN has a moderation policy that is heavy-handed, overbearing, inconsistent, and pathetically ineffective at preventing the lowbrow discourse that such a policy is theoretically designed to eliminate. This is consistent with the site's elitist tendencies.
What confuses me is why many submissions are killed off and hidden. For example, right now, if you click new is show dead on you will see this grayed out: 15.[dead] Oracle's Larry Ellison enthusiastically applauds NSA spying (techeye.net) 1 point by Mitt 17 minutes ago | flag | discuss I copy and paste it in to google, and find what looks to me like a reasonable article. It even has a CBS video source(1). It is a leg…
Some sites are auto-banned. I wouldn't be surprised techeye.net is among them, based on a quick look at the home page. While this has the occasional false positive, there are reasons for most of them.
Just yesterday, they had a video interview with Ladar Levison, the CEO of Lavabit. Excellent interviewed, yet banned at HN.
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I meant that he's trying to hide HN's real intention, publicity for YCers - their job ads and blog posts are on front page but no one else is allowed, and if anyone else's story gets up there it's dealt with by his algos. Algo's are good, but his algos are specifically designed to promote his content while not revealing that. Google has a strict policy of separating ads and organic, "do no evil". PG doesn't adhere to…
Why not start your own similar message board? I'm not just being glib. You know HN is based reddit's free software, right? I would love to see more competition and more variants of moderation policies. I've watched reddit's and slashdot's both evolve in interesting ways. I've run phpBB forums and ended them quickly b/c of the load of moderating. I've been on usenet groups with extremely high signal to noise ratio. I'…
I still stand by my offer to make a Hacker News API that retains the original post title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5653878
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Some sites are auto-banned. I wouldn't be surprised techeye.net is among them, based on a quick look at the home page. While this has the occasional false positive, there are reasons for most of them.
Strange that DemocracyNow.org is auto-banned. Just yesterday, they had a video interview with Ladar Levison, the CEO of Lavabit. Excellent interviewed, yet banned at HN.
If that is the case, then my request would be that its toned down, because to my eyes, it at least looks suspicious.