[untog]

Hm, I wonder if this will be deleted as well? The two submissions of the Storify article were:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3740378

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3739913

I'm a little concerned/confused as to why. If the apology is HN-appropriate content then I'm a little surprised that the reason for the apology isn't.

[ghurlman]

Well, if that isn't a bunch of BS, then I don't know what is. I'm guessing a flag army took care of them, but there's no way to know from here.

[untog]

Yes- if it was a flag army removing the content then that itself says something concerning about the Hacker News community.

[banane]

<crickets>

[freshhawk]

I was a bit on the fence until the submission to a post (http://blog.untogether.co.uk/post/19740556298/why-are-posts-...) asking about the deletions was also deleted.

Clearly there is no conversation allowed on HN about this bullshit controversy or about HN's removal of these submissions.

The second one bothers me a whole lot more, although both of them are not what I want happening on HN.

[ForrestN]

Agreed. And even if they do delete the apology too, I would appreciate an explanation.

[ForrestN]

Any attention from powers that be coming about this? Still struggling to understand why anyone would bother sweeping something relatively mild like this under the rug.

[untog]

No, I posted an entry myself (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3741395) asking why the items were being flagged. It got flagged itself- should have seen that one coming...

I'm wondering if there is any information out there about how many flags it takes to delete an HN entry. If it's small enough, it's entirely possible for a group of people to coordinate and remove content that damages them from the site. Concerning.