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What happened to the old article that was just here? It seems the points remain but the comments are all gone. Also, it's been reposted by pg...

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The other article was tripe. People were upvoting based on worthiness of the story, not on the particular writing at the original site. Now everyone can read actual facts and come up with their own opinions.

Although it should be noted that much of the editorialized parts of the story seem to have been added quite a bit after it was submitted. The article is currently 2-3x as long as when I first read it. At least don't blame the OP.

So, I submitted the original story. When it was submitted, the article on the page was much different that what it appears to be now. I just came back from lunch to find my submission "overridden". In this case I don't mind because of the situation, and I would rather have an article with more journalistic integrity take center stage, but there were some good comment threads going on the original submission. However, it did seem odd that it happened.

I find your previous comment humorously prophetic in light of this :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1132225

heh.. yeah. which is actually why I'm not upset that it got reposted.

It was Jalopnik otherwise known as the hand that feeds the Top Gear news section. If you read TheRegister you might understand a little. Just because someone dies you shouldn't stop acting like yourself.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1132211

Arbitrary killing of posts and comments by editorial fiat is a storied HN tradition.

But this is not one of those instances, I'm all for what happened here.

It's not arbitrary, it's just not explained.

If there are rules, the only plausible reason not to announce the rules is so that you can change them without having to give notice. This assumes that the rules haven't been announced, of course; maybe they have.

The guidelines are linked in the footer:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's not arbitrary. I flagged the story and I am pretty sure others flagged the story, too. Flagged stories get killed. It's the right thing to do.

You sort of answered your own question there. Just looks like pg changed the article source to one with more detail.

Ah, I see. Guess I wasn't familiar with the HN editing procedures. Shame the comments were lost though...

I think the comments can still be accessed here :

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1132211

> Just looks like pg changed the article source to one with more detail.

And one which does not read like trying to turn a tragedy in to an attack piece on Tesla Motors. That's got to be a new journalistic low.

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