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I think it’s disturbing you asked someone to change their content and even more disturbing that they complied. You are experienced at moderating Havker News have no business being a global censor for content out in the world. This sucks.

As a reader I’d have appreciated the original. And I’d appreciate a nice HN alternative.

>>educti+(OP)
Perhaps I should explain. What I actually did was suggest that it would be in their interest to take out the bit that some readers were complaining about, because it felt like an ad at the end. Of course they were free not to follow my suggestion.

I admit that's not precisely how I described it in the GP comment but it never crossed my mind that anyone would care. Commenter objections never fail to surprise!

Edit: I think I was right that it was in their interest as well as all of ours, because earlier the thread was dominated by complaints like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35718321

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35718172

... and after the change, it has been filling up with much more interesting on-topic comments. From my perspective that's a win-win-win, but YMMV.

>>educti+(OP)
Even if they decided not to change it which is fully within their rights and somehow that gets the article moderated off the front page of Hacker News, isn't that still moderating Hacker News? No one is getting censored, just like nobody is entitled to have their article be on Hacker News.