'Hacker' News (HN) Censorship
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-08-21 09:14:12 UTC
- Modified: 2020-08-21 09:14:12 UTC
Throwing overboard perfectly accurate stories
THEY used to call them "hackers"
Now synonymous with "crackers"
They think we're all suckers
What a bunch of f---ers
And now they have a site
They call it "Hacker News"
The censorship by editors
Never ceased to amuse
In comes a story
Accurate and factual
Deranking soon follows
Flagging seems eventual
Although manipulation seem perpetual
It glosses over marketing
Front page for so-called 'hackers'
Endless PR they're trumpeting
Not all all sites are equal
Some are occasionally bilingual
If facts are irrefutable
Find errors that are purely lingual
Failing the nitpick on language
There's always the font, the certificate, the layout
Anything to shoot the messenger
The HN VC gives away its sellout
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Comments
UrFejk
2020-08-21 11:51:31
I have posted some of your stories on HN.
If story gets flagged, it is not neccessarily an editor that flaggs it, but another user. There are some users which just can't wait to flag somebody. Maybe they get a prize?
Why I think stories got flagged: 2,445 IBM Employees Openly Condemned IBM for Enabling Racist Regimes - some politicaly flavoured comments were the fault for that, not an article itself
In Microsoft Windows the Police May Get Access to All the Files - I do not really know about that one, I think it is the title. Probably should be How to remove OneDrive from Windows. That way, it wouldn't get flagged.
Microsoft Has Put the String “0xBIGBOOBS” Inside Linux - looks like somebody thought it was a clickbait for a porn site, got flagged right away so I took it down.
Other users are also complaining about flagging as well.
Keep up with good work!
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2020-08-22 00:50:07
Yes, I did worry about how far astray the comments drifted, suspecting it might have been the culprit.