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Ask HN: Where are the news about the shot down of the airliner?

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It seems weird that there is nothing on the front page... Spam filter too agressive?

The stories have been heavily flagged by users, in most cases to the point of being killed.

This post was killed by user flags.

Probably flagged as off-topic.

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Where can discussions about off-topic decision-making be viewed?

While it's certainly off-topic, it might be better to heavily penalize this kind of current-event/disaster news such that it can only rarely float to the top (and I'm not trying to fetishize it here), instead of getting flagged out.

It was top of HN for a few hours earlier this morning.

There have been news topics submitted, highly voted and commented, but they've been deleted or removed from the homepage. It would be nice if we could get an answer as to why it's being censored from HN, when it's something the community is interested in discussing.

Probably the tendency of those threads to devolve into nationalist political backbiting and conspiracy theory.

Just because it's news doesn't mean it belongs here. I'm guessing it was flagged off.

As is this, for being meta noise :/

Users can flag a story if they don't thing it belongs. Maybe the community decided that it's not something they want.

It seems like any user can simply flag a "news" story once and it instantly disappears forever. What is the rationale for censoring stories that happen to contain current events and MANY users are posting and have MANY upvotes? The thing that made news.ycombinator.com was the seemingly perfect mix of stories from a vast range of topics including some news stories, great programming links, great advice, tech breakthroughs, and god forbid, a occasional NSA story.

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