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Why is this no longer at the top of the front page? ~900 points in ~1 hour alone. Please, mods, some transparency?

Users tend to flag purely political stories and moderators add downweights to them. That's part of keeping the balance on HN, which is not a primarily political site: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

It is a little weird to let that affect a story that is obviously of huge interest to the visitors of this site.

It's being flagged by people who are also users of the site, and is right at the center of a category defined as likely off-topic by the site guidelines.

While I certainly find it an interesting topic worth discussing, I think the rules and community moderation is working as advertised and as designed here.

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