[icw_nru]

Hello, some things I want to talk about.

HN discussion of part 1 leaks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864419

Ironically, after posting the part 1 leaks, I ran into several censorship efforts directed towards me (both direct and indirect).

I had my Reddit account shadow banned (still in effect) and my hackernews account on a "filtered mode" (they think my posts are too promotional and repetitive).

This story was immediately filtered after I initially posted it this morning.

Another thing to mention, is that for the first couple of hours after posting the part 1 story, I had the post locked several times, and have had several newly created HN accounts making some not so nice comments directed towards us as opposed to focusing on the story at hand.

Also my post was down ranked to the third page of HN, despite having way more engagement (comments and upvotes) then 95% of the posts on the first page of HN.

So if anyone knows a better way to make these posts without getting banned/filtered, or knows another place that would be interested let me know. I would like to continue posting on HackerNews, but if I have to message the mods every time I make the post, it would be extremely painful. Thanks to Dan, for once again coming to save the day.

Part 3 leaks will probably be either next week or the week after. We are currently collaborating with a news organization to get the story out there first.

Finally, I can answer any questions anyone has about this story.

[tstrimple]

> So if anyone knows a better way to make these posts without getting banned/filtered

The problem seems to be that HN has the very same incentives to manipulate social discourse as these other platforms do and by all accounts seems to be doing it or explicitly allowing it to happen "organically" via flagging.