Hacker News is actively censoring links to Arrington story.
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Hacker News is actively censoring links to Arrington story.
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#2Is gawker.com on the list of banned domains?
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#3Is gawker.com on the list of banned domains?
At the very least, anything written by Adrian Chen probably should be.
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#6Betabeat is the only other news site that has covered it, and it's mostly covered it by recapping Gawker's reporting. Someone submitted a link to a BetaBeat before but it was flagged off:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5492145
Most controversies related to personal conflicts and allegations are usually flagged, not just in this particular case (many of the Adria Richards-related submissions, for example). I wouldn't chalk this up to a conspiracy to protect Arrington or being anti-Gawker as much as HN's editorial stance on these topics in general.
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#7I doubt this is censorship, HN has exhibited similar behavior for me in the past when linking to friends' blogs and self-hosted pages, seems to me that it's just a simple bug, no big conspiracy
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#8Another post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5492145 was flagged and killed after not even 10 minutes on the front page
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#9Is gawker.com on the list of banned domains?
I think so. I've had a deadspin story I submitted disappear, even though it was on-topic. (It was a story about satellite feeds glitching under certain conditions.)
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#10Is gawker.com on the list of banned domains?
Yes, I just submitted one, logged out and it was gone. HN may be censoring the links based on the resent surge of Arrington posts, however. Who knows.