Is HN being censored?

The mechanisms at work are all described in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

HN gets 1200 submissions a day. Perhaps 100 spend significant time on the front page. Are the other 1100 being censored? Well, people basically use that word depending on how they feel about a story.

Looking at https://hn.algolia.com/?q=mit.edu , I guess https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27234111

You can write to the mods and ask. Most of the times, the answer is that many users flagged the post.

Yes.

I get that my posts are not so favored here, but I do believe I am doing one of the more “interesting” things in scope of collab. creative writing in terms of “story” / literature

Posted today twice -

Show HN: Build-a-Blocks, a Copyleft Creative Writing Platform [1]

both times, didn’t show up on multiple devices under “new” section of HN

sad because am making quality effort

[1] https://baldinoblog.com/tags.html

This topic has been continuously getting flagged for the whole past week. It is obvious that the community wants to discuss it because there have been many submissions which immediately get a lot of interest but then get killed without any reason. It's frankly eye opening how much censorship there is going on. Out of curiosity I started reading about it and I was deeply disturbed by what I found. I had not realized the situation was THAT bad. I encourage everyone to do their own research on the situation and not let themselves be mislead by mainstream media, all of which are so blatantly biased it is unbelievable. It really made me question the supposed free speech we have in this country.

Alot of popular discussions that become unsavory, i.e. discussions about incels and sexless men get removed from the front page. Basically hard truths that are hot topics for men in technology. HN generally avoids allowing controversial discussions about race, gender, discrimination, etc.

All of which I think is fine, this isnt really the medium for that. When a big event occurs, they allow the discussion, otherwise, things get downranked. I really dont think the downranking is by members, it usually happens too rapidly, and makes no sense given the number of replies occurring in the thread.

Yes, just not the usual way. People with karma can flag things they don't like regardless of whether it's correct, factual, polite, etc, and there's no feedback mechanism to rein them in. When your post full of correct information is hidden from others, you can't tell who the culprits are. You can't demand that they say why they did what they did.

I think HN is best thought of as a machine for deepening the delusions of the left. Nothing they don't like will reach the front page, first of all, or if it does, it will be flagged. Whatever remains for consideration, in the comment section you are allowed to fiddle around with a few extraneous details about it, but you can't skewer the whole thing. You can't say it's fundamentally invalid. Nor can you question the source. If it's a science article from the Guardian, you can't link to ten false science predictions the Guardian made in the past and ask people not to post fake news; the Guardian is simply blessed. It is Official Information.

The leftists on HN can throw bricks at your head all day long. But if you pick up any of those bricks and start throwing them back, you'll be downvoted or even banned for being inflammatory.

Of course. All social media is censoring now. People here also seem to be ok with censorship with the intent (if I'm generous) to protect other people.

The evidence is you can't talk about censorship itself, it will get censored. (this post will be case and point)

You might enable the showdead feature, you'll start to see a lot of dead posts.

In theory this happens because a lot of people flag posts. In theory.

One thing, for sure, is that I noticed in the trump era, that there seemed to be some kind of pro-trump task force that flagged everything non-positive about trump and its administration