Ask HN: Why are a large proportion of legit posts being marked [dead]?
There is- or has been- something very strange going on lately. At the height of the GeekList mini-controversy last week the HN thread discussing it[1], which was in third place on the front page, was flagged and killed. The second discussion that was created[2] was also killed. Then I posted a blog entry[3] which also got to the front page, then was also flagged and killed. At that point I just gave up, because what can you do? It seems like the flagging mechanism is far too powerful- just a few reports and the entry gets shunted back seven pages. A few more and it's gone entirely.It's worrying for two reasons: one, that original Geeklist discussion had some great points being made, and a lot of users were obviously engaging with it before a minority decided to dispose of it. Two, there's a clear minority on here that would like to see discussions about sexism in tech removed from HN.[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3739913[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3740378[3] http://blog.untogether.co.uk/post/19740556298/why-are-posts-...