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Re:Facebook Stops You From Posting ‘Irrelevant Or Inappropri... by tomp on Saturday May 05, 2012 @05:41PM (#3933367)
We have spam here on HN as well. We just deal with it differently - downvoted comments are not censored, made less obvious so that the casual reader doesn't need to read them.

That is not censorship. Facebook's approach is.

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Re:Facebook Stops You From Posting ‘Irrelevant Or Inappropri... by chc on Saturday May 05, 2012 @06:28PM (#3933473)
No, spam gets killed. Voting is the standard way to deal with bad comments, but egregious abuses only show up if you have showdead on.
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