Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube

Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by ccktlmazeltov on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:57PM (#23228275)

Am I crazy or was there a comment in this thread calling out the moderators of HN and their own censorship? Did it disappear as well?

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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by jb775 on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:28PM (#23228589)

Discussion was buried low the comments because it was "down-weighted" by the moderators:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223555#23225685

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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by dang on Monday May 18, 2020 @06:32PM (#23229153)

The thread you're referring to is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223555. There is ample explanation there of what happened.

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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by ccktlmazeltov on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @03:30PM (#23239080)

thanks for the hard work here dang, I really appreciate your moderation. I hope you can appreciate our inquisitions from time to time. I think this kind of model works well in general to keep both sides accountable.

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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by koheripbal on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:28PM (#23228591)

I don't remember exactly, but originally my comment wasn't top-level. Did the mods do that, or is that automatic with high karma comments or something?

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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by dang on Monday May 18, 2020 @06:37PM (#23229194)

We sometimes do that to protect an on-topic subthread from suffering the fate of its on-topic parent.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23225522

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