I saw a post about employees of Musk's companies and their reactions to his Nazi salute at the inauguration. The rise of fascism in America is definitely an interesting and pertinent question, but the post was insta-flagged into oblivion.<p>Is HN suppressing negative posts about Elon Musk?
It appears HN <i>users are</i> flagging to suppress posts, yes, not HN or its mods.<p><a href="https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals">https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals</a> might be helpful for tracking some of this, feel free to bookmark.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231537">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231537</a> is helpful to understand some mechanics of the above.<p>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.<p>(as pvg's links to dang's comments mention, this is not HN/mod action; this is user sourced moderation activity)
You can see some recent mod commentary on this. It's more or less how HN works and is supposed to work:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42777298">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42777298</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42775648">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42775648</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42775535">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42775535</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42775519">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42775519</a>
OP: I just submitted a similar question, with a neutral title. While I think your topic is valid, the biased headline probably contributed to the flags.
I use hn.algolia.com and flagging doesn't seem to have an effect. I still see top voted and commented stories.<p>HN works based on flagging. If a few users flag a story, it gets hidden. The algorithm errs on the side of being safe than sorry.
Did you see how the discussion went on the first submission of the video/clip/story? Not so well.<p>There isn't much room for discussion or any real 'question' to get into on that particular story. Many, perhaps most, would rather not lend validation to it and move on. And the rest, well, as mentioned, the discussion devolves into insults and weird 'othersideism' and well, doesn't go anywhere.<p>An alternative option is also you're welcome to bring it up/seek to address it further, or even flag, the numerous Musk/Telsa/X related stories that come up around here elsewhere.
I'm flagging it on LinkedIn, here I don't care so much, I can dive in when I want (but I don't really), it's not in the way of me finding assignments.<p>Anyway, to me it's obvious Elon was overly enthusiastic and emotional ("My heart goes out to you"), as he was when that astronaut chided him. To some it's not. I guess we know when he keeps saluting in this way. Until that time, cool down everyone.
That's absolutely the kind of thing I would flag and I'm very much a left winger. The posting guidelines⁰ explicitly say: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." You don't need a conspiracy to account for this kind of thing disappearing swiftly.<p>⁰ <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a>