Re:Ask HN: Objecting to stories being killed
by Confusion on Friday July 03, 2009 @02:08PM
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We told you it's not good for HN by flagging it. We're disagreeing with you, because we believe it doesn't belong here. Now you come here and presume we disagree with the contents of the article and suggest we are morally inferior, because we have unethical reasons for flagging the article. You're not just wrong once, but twice.
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No, the article was auto-killed. The blogger is probably blacklisted for being racially insensitive or something. Yet here is an example of one of his posts that did well on HN and generated much interesting commentary: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=280544
The blacklist is here:
It wasnt auto-killed. Very few domains are on the blacklist AFAIK.
I just tried submitting another article from his blog and again it was [dead] by the time I was redirected to the 'new' page, i.e. a few milliseconds. Here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=686436
Try posting something from his site yourself, like this one: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2007/01/illuminating-map.html
ouch, ok sorry your right.. Looking at his material it looks like he qualifies for the stringent blocklist guidelines.
Which item in the guidelines does this blogger's writing violate?
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
Im guessing given the outspoken-ness of the guy the material would tend to end in flame fests ;)