Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page
As much as I like HN, I&#x27;m not a big fan of the secrecy around moderator interventions - what gets censored, what posts get re-titled, etc.<p>I can understand they might want to keep the ranking algorithm and anti-spam techniques secret, but stuff that are manually censored by a moderator should be indicated as such, maybe by some automatic message like &quot;This post was removed due to [reason]&quot;.<p>Some websites manage to fight spam while remaining reasonably transparent (eg. StackExchange, where pretty much everything is documented - flags, closing reasons, edits, etc.).