Suppression implies intent, no? There was/is no such intent. The submission got penalized by software for various reasons (mostly unrelated to the topic), as well as flagged by users. We've turned that off now.
If, instead of assuming sinister deeds, you (or anyone) would simply give us a heads-up at hn@ycombinator.com, we could fix it sooner. This is what eventually happened.
Edit: it turns out a submission of the original report has been on the frontpage for the last 9 hours, so I've merged the other threads into that one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50101813.
You (and HN as a whole) have a pretty good track record of intervention when automated moderation fails. I certainly don't mean to accuse you of any malicious intent here.
But it's pretty clear that there was a concerted effort to suppress those posts by various actors who did have such intent. I do think it's a failing of the automated system that such suppression can be done at all.
Powerful corporations and nation states have always tried to maintain control over the flow of information. It was never really rules or regulations that kept them in check, but the practicalities of budgets and resourcing constraints. Now that those barriers are crumbling, I think the challenge of moderation will be much harder for all discussion going forward.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50103000
Buried to the fifth page. Ridiculous suppression.
Suppression implies intent, no? There was/is no such intent. The submission got penalized by software for various reasons (mostly unrelated to the topic), as well as flagged by users. We've turned that off now.
If, instead of assuming sinister deeds, you (or anyone) would simply give us a heads-up at hn@ycombinator.com, we could fix it sooner. This is what eventually happened.
Edit: it turns out a submission of the original report has been on the frontpage for the last 9 hours, so I've merged the other threads into that one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50101813.
You (and HN as a whole) have a pretty good track record of intervention when automated moderation fails. I certainly don't mean to accuse you of any malicious intent here.
But it's pretty clear that there was a concerted effort to suppress those posts by various actors who did have such intent. I do think it's a failing of the automated system that such suppression can be done at all.
Powerful corporations and nation states have always tried to maintain control over the flow of information. It was never really rules or regulations that kept them in check, but the practicalities of budgets and resourcing constraints. Now that those barriers are crumbling, I think the challenge of moderation will be much harder for all discussion going forward.
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
Edit: er, moved again to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50101813.