Is News.YC censored?
what happened to this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126421
it was a stupid post but i found it hilarious
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126421
it was a stupid post but i found it hilarious
This is rare. While community-oriented sites where you can read jokes/hilarious stuff/trolls are common and all over the place.
So when I want to be distracted, all I have to do is to open a new tab and go to reddit or whatever. HN is a special environment that must be preserved from this kind of stuff in order to keep the focused and quality discussions going on.
Come to think of it, a profile option to increase (or decrease) the effective gravity for articles posted by users who post articles marked [dead] in the last few days could be useful to monitor this.
Or even something as simple as a /dead view.
And it isn't censorship when the code for the forum is publicly available. This is private property, not the pissing ground of trolls. You have no right to post here. You must respect the owners and curators of the site.
I would say the most important reason to kill the thread is that it isn't something you would say to someones face. That rubric works really well to judge whether it is appropriate for a forum like this, trying to host interesting content.
As we speak brown-shirted storm troopers are converging upon your apartment. You know too much. The system has turned against you. Go! Run for your life!