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To me, the big warning sign is that the creators of a social music app seem to be ignorant of or in denial of the fact that music is one of the most deeply personal and subjective media in human culture. Even if they disabled a much less popular band, that attitude of objectivity doesn't sit well with me.

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Naw, I disagree... if you can accede that they know that tastes vary, and thus that their own tastes aren't objective, then when they make a statement about their tastes, they probably understand the subjectivity of the statement they are making.

I don't take what they are doing as an objective statement about taste, but rather as their own subjective statement, which you can't really avoid doing once you're designing stuff for folks.

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The "c...j...k" word causes comments on HN to auto-[dead].

Thanks for the tip. That's really dumb.

A few other words do it too (rot13("znfgheongvba") does it as well, but only some of the time). I don't think this is caused by a hard-coded blacklist of words, but I'm not really sure exactly what conditions have to be met for it to happen.

@scarecrowbob: Your comment (the one that is a sibling to this comment) is also [dead]. I have no idea why, this is getting kind of absurd...

HA! My reply that quoted you is dead for similar reasons.

Can you give more hints about this word? I want to know and I don't get the hint.

circle + (beefjerky - cow)

One of the tweets from the article used the term. Baddox quoted that term. If you turn on "show dead" you can see baddox's comment.

So that's why my list of all-time-best punk bands that I keep posting to HN never gets any replies!

I might agree somewhat if you couldn't turn it off, but as it is, to me it just comes off as a fun, cheeky little jab.

Maybe they should have it off by default if so many people really can't take a little joke...

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