This is why I’m growing more and more discontent with HN.
Either it was unpopular with the crowd, or the mods. Either way, though, f** manipulated discourse and whoever is instrumentally responsible.
>This is why I’m growing more and more discontent with HN.
You’re not alone. In fact HN is my last real contact with the mainstream curated internet. I left Twitter etc. some 6-7 years ago. My days here are numbered due to relentless injection of politics.
Also, as others have said, the HN algorithm penalizes things with more comments than upvotes.
Finally, the mods (dang and...one other) tend to take a very light touch with respect to moderation.
You can decide that you don't like the community (personally, I think that HN started its Eternal September 5-ish years ago), but I don't think that this counts as "manipulated discourse".