Nah, your "flame war detector" validates it. Am I expected to believe a site that looks a lot like Craigslist and has no extra features like email, favorites, etc. has the ability and competence to properly code a flame war detector?

Or is it more likely there is a basic filter that blocks conversations against the interests of said party? Forums are transparent, when threads are locked /deleted / moderated it is egregiously obvious and publicly visible. HN operates Gestapo style and then tries to gaslight you that nothing happened.

Well, they are about to IPO soon so I wouldn't rule out conflict of interests. I saw the link, clicked to read the Reddit post, when I came back, the link is gone. I had to search to find it and it had nearly 300 points. I see no reason to have flagged it since Christain and Apollo have done no wrong. He was telling his users that Reddit is effectively killing Apollo and he was allowed to disclose it.