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What happened to the old article that was just here? It seems the points remain but the comments are all gone. Also, it's been reposted by pg...
by mingdingo 17y ago
What happened to the old article that was just here? It seems the points remain but the comments are all gone. Also, it's been reposted by pg...
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- pg 17y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1132211 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1132211
- jrockway 17y agoThe other article was tripe. People were upvoting based on worthiness of the story, not on the particular writing at the original site. Now everyone can read actual facts and come up with their own opinions.
- ryanelkins 17y agoAlthough it should be noted that much of the editorialized parts of the story seem to have been added quite a bit after it was submitted. The article is currently 2-3x as long as when I first read it. At least don't blame the OP.
- jazzychad 17y agoSo, I submitted the original story. When it was submitted, the article on the page was much different that what it appears to be now. I just came back from lunch to find my submission "overridden". In this case I don't mind because of the situation, and I would rather have an article with more journalistic integrity take center stage, but there were some good comment threads going on the original submission. However, it did seem odd that it happened.
- aquadoctorbob 17y agoI find your previous comment humorously prophetic in light of this :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1132225 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1132225
- jazzychad 17y agoheh.. yeah. which is actually why I'm not upset that it got reposted.
- Quarrelsome 17y agoIt was Jalopnik otherwise known as the hand that feeds the Top Gear news section. If you read TheRegister you might understand a little. Just because someone dies you shouldn't stop acting like yourself.
- mrtron 17y agoYou sort of answered your own question there. Just looks like pg changed the article source to one with more detail.
- mingdingo 17y agoAh, I see. Guess I wasn't familiar with the HN editing procedures. Shame the comments were lost though...
- nishantmodak 17y agoI think the comments can still be accessed here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1132211 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1132211
- jacquesm 17y ago> Just looks like pg changed the article source to one with more detail. And one which does not read like trying to turn a tragedy in to an attack piece on Tesla Motors. That's got to be a new journalistic low.
- idlewords 17y agoArbitrary killing of posts and comments by editorial fiat is a storied HN tradition.
- jacquesm 17y agoBut this is not one of those instances, I'm all for what happened here.
- tvon 17y agoIt's not arbitrary, it's just not explained.
- randallsquared 17y agoIf there are rules, the only plausible reason not to announce the rules is so that you can change them without having to give notice. This assumes that the rules haven't been announced, of course; maybe they have.
- tvon 17y agoThe guidelines are linked in the footer: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- pkaler 17y agoIt's not arbitrary. I flagged the story and I am pretty sure others flagged the story, too. Flagged stories get killed. It's the right thing to do.