Sad that this was deck was leaked on ValleyWag on Monday, but because Gawker is blacklisted from HN, it didn't make the front page until a crappy re-blog from BusinessInsider came out.

I think HN is way too aggressive in banning domains (or at least not transparent enough about which are banned and why).

For instance, I submitted this really interesting piece today on Buzzfeed's FWD tech vertical: http://www.buzzfeed.com/joshmiller/fwdus-breaks-its-first-pr...

Because Buzzfeed is (apparently) banned, the link was autokilled as soon as I hit submit.

I really don't mind that HN is curated--that's part of what makes it so good. But the lack of transparency seems almost like they are saying "Don't worry, just trust us, we know what's best for you."