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Mods: Why is this being deranked? This is a legitimate discussion.

It set off the software's flamewar detector a.k.a. overheated discussion detector. I've turned the penalty off and rolled back the clock on the story to compensate.

Posts without URLs (Ask HN, Tell HN, etc.) also start off with a penalty, and I've turned that off too.

Thank you.

ycombinator funded reddit. And ycombinator is part of the group at the forefront of the internet censorship movement.

> This is a legitimate discussion.

Since when did that matter. It's discussion they don't want, legitimate or not.

Who funded Reddit has zero to do with how HN is moderated. This is the sort of explanation people reach for at the first sign of anything that's partially consistent with it. If you think about it, that's already enough to tell you that the logic is wrong: it explains way too much!

(As for the bit about YC, it sounds pretty weird to me but I don't know what you're referring to.)

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