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Sure, here are some remarks on news dot ycombinator dot com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43141350

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43141963

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43142108

I wouldn't call this documentation in the sense that I thought you meant the word.

These are examples of users complaining about HN in the way many users always complain about HN. You'll find countless such comments making general claims about how the site is "all X" or "has become Y" or "never allows any Z".

The problem is that these perceptions are not reliable—people base them on datapoints that they happen to notice because they dislike them so much [1], and from there they jump to general conclusions.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

I'm willing to believe you mean what you say and are posting in good faith, but please read this comment and others on its link and tell me with a straight face there's no strong lib-left bias in HN's community moderation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43209997

(edit) And here's a nice response to my comment from a user with thousands of karma, illustrative IMO of the average flagger-and-remover:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43211418

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