HackerNewsRemovals

I reached this post via https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals I recommend any hackernews users to check that site frequently, plenty of interesting posts on hackernews that get flagged and hidden daily.

Tangential: Afaict mods are on our side, despite whatever "aggregated" data "suggest" This site (which I peruse everyday) claims that 3 AI articles were modded down today, but in actual fact the single nonAI article that was supposed to have been modded down was modded up. https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals?tab=rea... I trust however, that the political calls are representative One has to delve into the data before arriving at broad judgements :)

In the january archive [0] I can't find this flagged story [1]. Was it already fallen off when flag-killed? Or doesn't it catch these? So many important tech related debates lately being silenced by mass flagging. Luckily they remain in https://news.ycombinator.com/active (I feel like "everything" is now "political" and thus not wanted here. Since Musk for instance now is a political figure, one cannot discuss X even when not a partisan topic about X. Or when some guy does big swoops that affect tech world wide, it's also not possible to discuss here. And I miss it, because I think HN is full of great people and I would like your take on these events.) [0]: https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals/blob/ma... [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46503199

https://news.ycombinator.com/active to browse without the community moderation ("flagging") https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals for thread removal tracking political moderation methodology by:dang - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44718396 is helpful context HN Search: political overlap by:dang - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... HN Search: turn off flags by:dang - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Worth mentioning Hacker News Removals as well: https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals "List of stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time."

https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals (llms are likely your friend for classification, emit output somewhere outside of the control of the forum)

May I have some more contexts? Is this the project you are talking about https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals?

It appears HN users are flagging to suppress posts, yes, not HN or its mods. https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals might be helpful for tracking some of this, feel free to bookmark. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231537 is helpful to understand some mechanics of the above. Let "You shouldn't flag things just because you don't like them, but you should flag them if they go against the site guidelines." be your guide. (as pvg's links to dang's comments mention, this is not HN/mod action; this is user sourced moderation activity)

> How many more do you need? Your bias is showing, same as when different people simultaneously complain that HN is "too left" or "too right." Your reliance on a handful of outdated posts is statistically insignificant when trying to deny the clear trend of Zionist brigading over the past 12 months. Through the https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals , we can track the data and see a clear pattern of brigading when it comes to anything that's remotely critical of Israel. And even those which you listed survived mass false flagging attempts. How could five articles, all older than 5-6 months, ever be statistically significant against the backdrop of thousands of such articles being mass flagged by zionists EACH month? Ignoring this overwhelming evidence of coordinated downvoting and flagging only highlights your own bias.

He's correct and you referencing a single article that is 6 months old, 1 of thousands that survived the flagging by brigading zionists, is not any sufficient evidence to the contrary. One can easily see how many Gaza related articles get immediately flagged and removed here https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals

This article was on the front page doing quite well. Now it's completely disappeared. What happened? EDIT: Interesting, this is by far the most popular post detected by this project recently: https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals

Can you run this tool on the removed posts dataset? https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals

https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals?tab=rea... (Removal tracking) https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ (Title change tracking) Flag and vouch meta: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39921649 https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/two-hn-announcements/ (to my knowledge, once a post has been sufficiently flagged without vouching, it is beyond a user's event horizon and only mods and users who had posted in the thread can see it)