> whenever a mod removed something forcibly from front
Mods (as far as I know, I'm not one) never forcibly remove things from the front page. These are almost always the result of user flagging.
Mods (as far as I know, I'm not one) never forcibly remove things from the front page. These are almost always the result of user flagging.
This article however is about stories that disappear without receiving either.
Here's an example of a submission that does not include the [flagged] label, but which has a moderator saying it got flagged, and that the flags are the reason it's not on the front page. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13741276
Many months ago, I had several submissions that were visible when I was logged in, and yet when I accessed HN as a guest, they were not in the submission ranking.
From what I've seen mods are happy to fix any problems.
The moderators bury things on the front page pretty routinely.
That's a pretty big (and vague!) accusation to just throw out there, especially in light of this comment elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13858327
dang 6 minutes ago
As others have pointed out, the [flagged] annotation means heavily flagged. A story can be downweighted off the front page by user flags long before [flagged] shows up. Indeed that's what happened to the submission the OP is complaining about. Moderators never saw it.