Comment by infecto
2 years ago
Deranking is different than dead though right? The other post was live for maybe a minute. I get the flame war prevention but this feels more like individuals killing ideas they don’t agree with. I don’t have skin in the game. Just curious.
It happens all the time here. I use a feed reader for HN so I see just about everything before it’s flagged or killed as it trickles in. There are posts that get quickly flagged and killed that definitely follow guidelines, but perhaps the article’s author might not have an acceptable HN community opinion on some other topic, and boom within minutes they are flagged enough to stop commentary and bury the article.
yes, one moves the post to 2nd page or worse, the other removes completely unless [dead] filter id disabled, plus even lower in ranks.