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The Mastodon post itself. I get a 404 error. It was fine when this reached the frontpage yesterday or when was it. Looks like the author deleted it.

EDIT: nvm it's rate limited

by naturalmovement1 hours ago|

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> From an HN point of view the idea is to give the discussion a place, since the community obviously wants to have it

So where do you draw the line?

Just this week I saw multiple offtopic Epstein schizoposts by 10+ year old accounts that were alternately flagged and vouched. Should we allow that too?

My takeaway is this is a highly politically charged rant on a niche social media site — exactly the kind of discussion we're meant to avoid.

Things are rotten below ground and you give an inch, they'll want a mile.

by dang1 hours ago|

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We try to draw the line according to principles that I've explained many times over the years. If you scroll back through the comments, for example, at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so..., you'll find them. If you read some of those and then still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.

Btw, I'm not claiming that we make every individual call correctly - that's an undecidable question anyhow since everyone will have their own evaluation of "correctly". But at the more general level of what principles to apply, I do think there's a certain consistency: they've been the same for many years, and we do our (fallible) best to follow them.