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It got flagkilled for obviously breaking the site guidelines. Killed posts remain visible to users who have 'showdead' turned on in their profile. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
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But it was very much on topic.
Once you do that, you can see the comment in the link that dang posted.
Anyway it’s good that comment was moderated. The commentator didn’t say anything about Israel. He was clearly being hostile towards Jewish people in a “subtle” way that very clearly isn’t really subtle to anyone.
Ironic, given the topic of this post....
Principled criticism of Israel is fine. There have been a great many such posts on HN. Religious and/or ethnic flamebait is not fine. This is not a difficult distinction, and anyone who is posting in good faith should have no difficulty making it.
Your comment broke the site guidelines in other ways as well.
Nice work.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40747009 (June 2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40746973 (June 2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38623290 (Dec 2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27534558 (June 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25319171 (Dec 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18080981 (Sept 2018)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14116279 (April 2017)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13647198 (Feb 2017)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13286221 (Dec 2016)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11669863 (May 2016)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11518006 (April 2016)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11340026 (March 2016)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10897270 (Jan 2016)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10590568 (Nov 2015)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10564079 (Nov 2015)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9992931 (Aug 2015)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008392 (July 2014)
As you can see, these go back over a decade and in fact for as long as I've been doing this job.
The mistake in your comment is the assumption that we see everything that gets posted to HN. We don't come close—there is far too much for that to be possible. I'd be surprised if mods see even 10% of what gets posted to HN.
Since we can't moderate what we don't see, we rely on users to bring egregious posts to our attention. If you'd like to be helpful in the future, you'd be welcome to send us links so we can take a look.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
If that is what you mean, then I wonder what political position you think has been censored in this case.