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Whatever else, it is to YC’s credit that they don’t censor criticism of themselves on their own platform.

Just because you see some doesn’t mean they don’t.

And don't mention a dislike for "that one thing" too many times.

I don't know what one thing you're referring to, but a core principle of HN is to avoid repetition, and especially the repetition+indignation combo, which is the commonest and most tedious thing on the internet. So to me it sounds like you're referring to HN working as intended, regardless of what the thing is.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Oh certainly, and the way you have designed it is doing what you want - it seems to work for you - along with causing unmeasurable externalized consequences, but to each their own.

Repetition doesn't bother me personally, especially when understanding that what's repetition for one may be novel for another. I can understand you being in your position of having to scour HN reports - and that you'll likely see a far higher percentage of content and comments than most, etc, and that it could certainly take a toll and easily become annoying.

Now there are two phrases I'm curious to know what you mean by!

"that one thing" and "unmeasurable externalized consequences"

I have lots of thoughts written in draft notes, hopefully someday in the next few years it'll be worthwhile to compile it all and polish into a blog post; part of it has been studying behaviour associated with how various platforms similar mechanisms vary - HN vs. Reddit vs. Facebook vs. etc.

Nah, they don’t get points for not censoring criticism of themselves. It would just be negative points if they did.

No doubt but I additionally see it as a pretty American cultural trait as well.

The post just got flagged and taken down from public view.

By HN members, not moderators:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40100680>

That's because the community in the end rejected it overwhelmingly, as anyone who reads the comments in this thread will understand. Admins did nothing, other than refrain from intervening.

Normally a post of this sort would never stay on HN's front page. In the end it spent 4 hours on the front page. That's because we suspended our usual quality control, as I explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40100680.

dredmorbius's sibling comment already made the point, but I wanted to add more in the hope that no one ends up with the wrong idea.

"There's no such thing as bad publicity."

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