In my opinion HN has the most advanced online community control system that I know.
For example I cannot downvote. That's great. I didn't contribute enough to have that previlege yet, I'm still adapting to community standards. I don't want my mistakes to weaken the community standards, the same standards that made me want to join. If the core members don't think I'm contributing I agree that they should have the power to weaken me. Some control in one website is not censorship. It WAS MY CHOICE to join this community, I didn't create it. If I'm not happy at any moment I'm free to go. I'm just being banned from a community, I'm not being banned from internet, that would be censorship. There are still thousands of other communities to belong or even start a new one.
This is different from censorship in one country. There you have right to belong cause you borned there, it WASN'T YOUR CHOICE to join. You are already a core member. You have the same rights as everybody else to establish the standards. You need a place to exist.
edit: I think we can use this "logic" to analyze immigration problem.
In my opinion HN has the most advanced online community control system that I know. For example I cannot downvote. That's great. I didn't contribute enough to have that previlege yet, I'm still adapting to community standards. I don't want my mistakes to weaken the community standards, the same standards that made me want to join. If the core members don't think I'm contributing I agree that they should have the power to weaken me. Some control in one website is not censorship. It WAS MY CHOICE to join this community, I didn't create it. If I'm not happy at any moment I'm free to go. I'm just being banned from a community, I'm not being banned from internet, that would be censorship. There are still thousands of other communities to belong or even start a new one.
This is different from censorship in one country. There you have right to belong cause you borned there, it WASN'T YOUR CHOICE to join. You are already a core member. You have the same rights as everybody else to establish the standards. You need a place to exist.
edit: I think we can use this "logic" to analyze immigration problem.