Ask YC: Is there a Submissions/Comments cap?

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I was browsing http://news.ycombinator.org/threads?id=nickb and his comments/submissions are available for only 41 days whereas my own limited postings are available in whole. Can someone explain if there is a cap or other system in place for users with massive karma?

The cap seems to be at 180 submits (I've checked maybe 4 users with 2000+ karma) and variable comments.

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The software that runs this site is open-source, included in Arc as news.arc. I don't know the answer, but maybe you could find it.

I've poked around the Arc code (Arc1) and the HN release therein, but couldn't find the answer. But thanks for the idea. I'm betting this is an 'optimization' feature....

http://searchyc.com/submissions/by_date/nickb (213 result pages)

http://searchyc.com/comments/by_date/nickb (70+ result pages)

(= caching* 0 perpage* 30 maxend* 200)

Thanks! This saves me some work!

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