Unfortunately, HN is a highly censored and moderated platform that uses tools such as shadow banning posts, banning users, power downvoting posts, etc to contro

Unfortunately, HN is a highly censored and moderated platform that uses tools such as shadow banning posts, banning users, power downvoting posts, etc to control what content is displayed. Moderators then apply their arbitrary and subjective rules to defend their actions with no community transparency. For example, I posted a highly relevant article and was shadow banned because a moderator felt it was “too similar” to a previous post. This means it did not appear in the new section and was hidden from the HN community, even though my previous post received thousands of upvotes. When I emailed the moderator and tried to appeal his decision, he provided more subjective rules to defend his position, claiming the content was self promotional because it was related to my own company’s struggle against Amazon. People should realize HN supports only the moderators views with zero tolerance for all other content.