Comment by aw1621107
3 days ago
You're probably more likely to get a response by emailing the mods directly rather than commenting on a completely unrelated thread.
That being said, one reason a domain gets banned is when they are spam or consistently a source of off-topic or low-quality articles" [0]. Given the string of [flagged] posts from that domain and the bit of the guidelines that say that original sources are preferred, I wouldn't be too surprised if that particular domain was determined to be ban-worthy, whether manually or automatically.
Of course, I'm a nobody with no special insight into how HN works, so take the above with an appropriately sized grain of salt.
It's not just the domain, because a submission to youtube[1] was shadow banned or censored as well. This looks like undisclosed censorship against a particular language, which is why the question was asked. However, thanks for the response, because concerns over censorship and bans on hacker news should be out in the open.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46141171
I focused on the domain because that was the common factor that stood out to me in the examples you provided, especially given the domain's recent history here. I don't think I can usefully speculate as to why the post you linked was killed, though I am somewhat skeptical about the conclusion you appear to have drawn.
> However, thanks for the response, because concerns over censorship and bans on hacker news should be out in the open.
Maybe, maybe not, but either way hijacking unrelated threads is probably not the way to go about doing such a thing.