No. This is the usual case of user flags and the flamewar software. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12738677.

Yes, anything about him is gone within 2-3 hours, I went so far as 5 pages past the homepage and all 6 items as I type this (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=peter&sort=byPopularity&prefix...), including this one that got a lot of votes, but also one of the 5 or so votes one that showed up on the home page for a tiny bit, have been disappeared.

Perhaps the mods will step in, assuming they aren't behind it; me, I wonder what'll happen to these people's minds if/when Trumps wins.... Nothing good, especially to those who's business includes needing to sell to ~half the country.

ADDED: And now it's flagged; guess he won't be getting to give his side of his story to the HN crowd.

Just speculating, but it may have been caught by the flamewar detection software. I don't know how it works. Here's a couple of mentions of it being used in the past:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12792215

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12729921

I noticed that too. I had to go back in my history to find the link.