Comment by input_sh
2 years ago
The policy change was on the frontpage of HN just a couple of hours ago, but you can imagine how comments went and why it's no longer there.
2 years ago
The policy change was on the frontpage of HN just a couple of hours ago, but you can imagine how comments went and why it's no longer there.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34040165 is on the front page at #19 right now.
There were a couple of other duplicate discussions, but that's the main one.
Self censoring? Or cease and desist?
HN relatively deweights posts that get a lot of argument without a lot of insight. Things about politics, or tech involved culture war, or continuous divisive news stories disappear from the front page quickly.
I would classify that as ‘generic moderation policy’ rather than censorship