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Ask HN: Why did Google Manifesto article mysteriously disappear from HN?

20 pointsfranl12 comments

I clicked on the front page article from HN, read it, and when I hit the back button to HN, it was gone. The article seemed reasonable, however, I'm not sure if it was accurate or not. Was it removed because of inaccuracies or because it provided support for the Google Manifesto or...what?

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Several of the submissions got flagged for whatever reason.

There were multiple threads though and the most active had 2000+ comments before it got killed (which is extremely high as far as HN submissions go).

For reference, this is the article: https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/no-the-google-manif...

A lot of these articles get flagged right now, the specific one actually had a big discussion yesterday already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14968626

Gotcha, thanks! Would've expected to just have it redirect the permalink to the existing thread rather than just load an empty page.

I'm not sure that I understand your comment, but you can go to

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=franl

and enable showdead to see the [dead] threads. Warning: There is a lot of crap in the [dead] threads.

I just meant that if a thread was killed because there's already an active discussion for it, I would've expected to be redirected to the active thread (rather than a blank page). Thanks for the tip!

I Asked a similar question recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14967819

Which got flagged too. I'd say this google flagging is contagious ;)

If the topic is that touchy, I guess I'll abstain from making Google diversity-jokes.

Look at the HN guidelines. Most of the Google talk recently has been "off topic".

More "redundant" than "off-topic."

Anything humanizing james is being flagged heavily.

HN articles should be interesting or relevant.

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