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As an aside from the topic at hand, this article is 3 hours old and has 52 points. Why is this hidden on the 11th page?

It is weird, perhaps some of the profanity in the replies? Feels intentionally buried.

Possibly Mandrill/MailChimp employees flagging it because it's casting a bad light on them. They've disabled comments on their blog posts too.

There seems to be a lot of backlash against what they're doing and they likely don't want people to see that.

Yeah... I can't imagine any of their customers are happy about this. I haven't seen a single positive reply about it on twitter, HN, reddit etc.

It set off the flamewar detector.

I haven't seen much shilling except sales agents disclosing