Ask YC: Why was the WIRED tech gender gap article killed?
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In my experience there are lots of people on HN who are unhappy with the number of articles about gender issues. As a result, it's perfectly reasonable to believe that users have flagged the item to death.
But if you want to know for certain, ask the mods.
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However ...
In my experience there are lots of people on HN who are unhappy with the number of articles about gender issues. As a result, it's perfectly reasonable to believe that users have flagged the item to death.
But if you want to know for certain, ask the mods.
Articles are auto-killed when they either massively trip the voting detector or they get a lot of flags.
In this case, it could be either/or.
In this case, it could be either/or.
Why was the article removed? It was a decent read, extremely related to the topic, and I was interested in reading more comments on it.