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Tell HN: Use news.ycombinator.com/active

14•lysace•3h ago
news.ycombinator.com/news (the default redirect from the root) is being subjected to user-triggered censorship. There is a lot that these days.

Here's how I trained my desktop browser (Chrome) to visit the /active URL when when I type "ne<RET">

1. Type "news.ycombinator.com/active" into the Chrome combo box and hit return.

2. Type "ne" into the Chrome combo box.

3. In the list of completions, click on the cross/delete icon to the right for the first few that aren't what you want.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you get the desired result.

Comments

jgrahamc•2h ago
What "user-triggered censorship" are you talking about?
lysace•2h ago
2-3 users with the proper standing pressing that flag link on a story.
jgrahamc•1h ago
So that would be me. I flag stories about US politics, for example.
verdverm•1h ago
this sounds more like GP believes one of the conspiracy theories about how moderation works on HN
lysace•1h ago
What conspiracy theory would that be?
verdverm•57m ago
the one where a handful of people can coordinate to shadowban / flag

unclear if its the one where the official HN mods (there are only 2) believed to be the ones doing this

the reality is that the official mods are largely hands off, when they do get involved, more often than not it is to reverse a community flagging action, which is where most moderation happens, at a large enough community scale that a handful of people cannot wield this much flagging power

If you believe unjust flagging has happened, the best recourse is to email the HN mods, the are very friendly, helpful and fair

lysace•53m ago
> the one where a handful of people can coordinate to shadowban / flag

I have done it myself, successfully. (well, minus the coordination. the point is that it only takes a very small number of people to flag something for it be nuked from the front page)

Where did I claim that it was mods/some shadow cabal? Please read more carefully.

striking•1h ago
If the story has enough votes before then, it is only downweighted, and only a bit at a time. Same with the flamewar detector, it just pulls stories down a bit. After the score is more than (I think?) 10 votes, it won't get entirely flagged unless mods decide it should.
al_borland•2h ago
A bookmark would also work.
lysace•2h ago
It didn't work for me. Can't hurt though.
Insanity•1h ago
What is /active?
lysace•1h ago
My understanding:

It shows recent active topics, rather than upvoted/unflagged (not yet censored) topics.

E.g. unlike /news, upvotes and flags are ignored in the ranking.

lysace•59m ago
...And it's flagged, by maybe 2 people, and therefore censored.
sudobash1•53m ago
I think RSS feed reader users are also unaffected by flags. At least hnrss.org feed followers are. I haven't tried news.ycombinator.com/rss. But as long as the post hits the RSS feed before it is flagged, your reader can pick it up.

Honestly, for me, most of the time I am not interested in the flagged posts, but if you are, RSS is another way to see them.

O1111OOO•34m ago
> I haven't tried news.ycombinator.com/rss. But as long as the post hits the RSS feed before it is flagged, your reader can pick it up.

I can confirm.