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Ask HN: Why is that Apollo thread being obfuscated?

9 pointsgoolz5 comments

It seems all day efforts were made to keep the Apollo post from #1 and now it is not on the front page?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36245435 <- that post?

It was near the top for close to 24 hours. It was yesterday's top post (hit "past" at the top of HN and you'll see the top post for yesterday and can navigate to earlier dates). Posts slide off the front page after a while. Their ranking is determined by a combination of activity, upvotes, and age. At over 24 hours, what else is there to say anyways? We all know what's happening.

The thread was popping this morning, most threads linger, if you can not see they were eager to make it go away that is okay. All good.

Who are "they"? Because "they" did a terrible job. It was at or near the top for nearly 24 hours already, and it's still accessible. People can still post comments on it and engage in the discussion. And the front page still has Reddit-related discussions going on so it's not like the topic has been disappeared from the site. If this issue (Reddit) is so near-and-dear to your heart, go engage in those discussions. It would be more productive than posting nonsensically about censorship on a site that hasn't censored the topic.

This site most certainly change the rankings of things on based on whims and have a very overzealous mod team who expects you to toe the tine. Good people. But this is far from a bastion of free speech. And "they" are the shadowy figures and C-suite execs who sit there thinking this is somehow a single devs fault and want to cry foul about extortion when I could list a litany of things both Steve and Reddit have done that are morally reprehensible.

I spend every day on here, and somehow it got bumped to #2 right as it was blowing past 2k ups and 1k comments about... Now it is not even on the front page? @dang and gang could you please explain how a top 25 post EVER is somehow done... almost seems like blatant censorship.

EDIT: just to add I used a different VPN, then for good measure when on a tor box and did it too. Where is that thread??

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