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Are COVID-19 posts being censored?

7 pointsenchiridion10 comments

All of the coronavirus post are quickly moving off of the front page. Is this just down votes, or is there a site policy in play?

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Seems like two out of every five posts is about Coronavirus - I'm guessing there's some Coronavirus news fatigue playing a part. It would be very nice if dang and co. would steal the reddit concept of a megathread for this.

Stories likely to be covered by mainstream news are off topic per the guidelines, unless they present some new or interesting phenomenon (which this doesn't,) so the mods may be downranking them as low quality.

03022020: CDC hasn't revealed information to doctors that would help coronavirus patients https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/01/health/coronvirus-patient...

Overzealous mods?

Could be. Either way, I get the same feeling of paternalistic calming that's coming from most mass media.

Not something I would expect here. Let the information flow.

Generally, the people here seem resourceful. More information leads to better decisions.

There is some excessive moderation taking place on reddit in regards to coronavirus discussion. I've been using Twitter and bno's site to stay abreast of things.

I don't know about the rest of reddit, but r/coronavirus seems pretty good.

r/covid19, r/coronavirus, and r/china_flu are run by the same group and have varying levels of moderation.

r/wuhan_flu is uncensored but has been quarantined.

Mods??? Does HN have people moderating ?? I thought this was all driven by algorithms whose inputs came from people upvoting or down voting and people with lot of karma can in effect boost or bury posts. Genuinely curious here if there are moderators? And if so who is paying them ? How are the organized such that there is 24x7 moderation?

> Does HN have people moderating ??

Yes

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