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Said 'flame war detection' services are amazing on how consistently they skew toward silencing any right of Chairman Mao posts.

> You can tell an article hits home when people are flagging it to death to hide it.

Where "hits home" means "outrage-inducing" and "divisive". It's perfectly understandable to flag such things, in order to prevent the place from degenerating into a typical discussion board, where people are up each others' throats over trivia instead of trying to create something useful together.

Now it's 215+.... Very strange

Flame war detection. I don't know how advanced it is, but it's partly based on the number of comments and depth of comment threads, and their rate of growth. If you have a handful of very deep threads that have grown in just a short period of time, it's often a sign of negative, hostile discussions. When detected, those posts get their score (for how they should be ordered) severely reduced.

Yes, this thread tripped the overheated-discussion detector. We've turned it off for now, but it's not exactly a false positive.