p.s. Since your account has been primarily posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait, I've banned it. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
If folks were having curious conversation, and not just kneejerk partisan drivel, the story would stay up. When a large proportion of comments are flagged and downvoted, the story tanks, and gets rightfully flagged as flamebait.
For example, this article is about corporate censorship, one might like to discuss that here. Instead, most comments appear to be about the case itself. The internet has plenty of room for armchair juries to bicker over how they'd rule on the case without seeing all of the evidence. HN isn't losing much here.
I don't mean this in a snarky way, but my read is that this isn't exactly an interesting discussion. These kind of angry but shallow topics seem to get downweighted fast. On one hand, it does sort of sensor important information. On the other, it keeps the site more civil overall, and probably contributes to the overall better level of discourse, even if it means its sometimes hard to discuss some of the things you want to
dang|4 years ago
All of that is not just standard on HN, it's routine enough to be in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
p.s. Since your account has been primarily posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait, I've banned it. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
klyrs|4 years ago
For example, this article is about corporate censorship, one might like to discuss that here. Instead, most comments appear to be about the case itself. The internet has plenty of room for armchair juries to bicker over how they'd rule on the case without seeing all of the evidence. HN isn't losing much here.
dan-robertson|4 years ago
version_five|4 years ago