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		tomp on May 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook Stops You From Posting ‘Irrelevant Or Ina... We have spam here on HN as well. We just deal with it differently - downvoted comments are not censored, made less obvious so that the casual reader doesn't need to read them. That is not censorship. Facebook's approach is.

chc on May 5, 2012 [–]

No, spam gets killed. Voting is the standard way to deal with bad comments, but egregious abuses only show up if you have showdead on.

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