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Comment by ColinWright | Hacker News Reader

In deference to comments made, I've removed most of the information I originally posted. I included titles and web domains, but now I quote just the HN references.

There have been several previous posts of this story. Here are some.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7648105 (some discussion)

Here are others, without significant comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7648225 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7648748 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7649108 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7649218 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7649504 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7651066 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7652383 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7653026 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7654433 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7654821

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Except for one with 7 comments there are no discussions in them. A lot of articles with identical topic are usually posted on HN, yet the only relevant ones are those with activity. Others fade automatically.

Do you have a purpose with your fullscreen comment?

I also think that the continuous submission of the same new from different sources is a problem. (But I usually only post a “previous discussion” when one of the old versions have a lot of comments, or a very interesting comment.)

Most of them are only a rehash of the original new, without any additional information. Sometimes it’s worst, and every rehash lost a part of the information and add some hype. The guidelines advice to submit the original version.

The problem is that a lot of interesting technical new are only submitted once, and they are lost in the infinite streaming of almost-dupes.

In the last days I saw a few: “Earthlike planet”, “Fuelband”, “Codebabes”, “Atari ET”

Make it harder to post a submission perhaps? I would limit the rate for frequent submitters.

This story went to the HN top and then dissapeared, after few minutes. Earlier something very similar happened to at least one of the posts you listed. I wonder why?

We buried it as a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7647958, which covered Musk's news conference. The ULA suit wasn't mentioned in the title of that post but it was discussed quite a lot in the thread.

Thanks for the clarification and link, I missed that post and comments.

Points and time determine the position of a story. But if a moderator decides that he wants to, he can flag the story for a certain amount of position, 20, 40( next page )... You will probably only find such story only if you dig quickly enough using more.

It is an effective way of removing content. Deleting it would cause uproar, but that way the story fades almost unnoticed even to the commenters who noticed it.

There are also similar methods employed for specific users.

But why would a moderator like to silence/censor this particular story? What was wrong with it? I thought it was rather interesting and important.

Historically, Hacker News commenters hate this kind of comment. I like it, though.

At one point, RiderOfGiraffes even had a bot...

Not annoying at all...

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