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[batch12]

And your expectation came true. Front page then no page.

[sampo → batch12]

Now 7 hours later, this is #11 on the front page.

[lazyjones → batch12]

Very sad... I guess this kind of censorship / denialism is becoming an accepted practice in certain circles. I would have thought the moderators here are bigger than that.

[tom_ → lazyjones]

It’s typically due to people like me flagging it, as we’ve found from experience that the discussions are usually pretty tedious.

This place is no democracy, though, so dang sometimes brings them back. And that’s ok.

[dang → kyle_martin1]

"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

p.s. I don't know about age, but only about 10% of HN users were in the Bay Area, last time I ran the numbers, and that was for a much larger region than most people refer to as the Bay Area (a 200-mile diameter circle IIRC). The SF number would be well below that.