[Throwaway823]

There have been news topics submitted, highly voted and commented, but they've been deleted or removed from the homepage. It would be nice if we could get an answer as to why it's being censored from HN, when it's something the community is interested in discussing.

[krapp]

Probably the tendency of those threads to devolve into nationalist political backbiting and conspiracy theory.

[Karunamon]

Just because it's news doesn't mean it belongs here. I'm guessing it was flagged off.

As is this, for being meta noise :/

[meepmorp]

Users can flag a story if they don't thing it belongs. Maybe the community decided that it's not something they want.

[aburan28]

It seems like any user can simply flag a "news" story once and it instantly disappears forever. What is the rationale for censoring stories that happen to contain current events and MANY users are posting and have MANY upvotes? The thing that made news.ycombinator.com was the seemingly perfect mix of stories from a vast range of topics including some news stories, great programming links, great advice, tech breakthroughs, and god forbid, a occasional NSA story.