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Very frustrating... somehow this article keeps getting posted, gets a large number of upvotes, then is flagged dead. What is going on here?

Relevant to this forum, Kobe was a partner in the venture capital firm Bryant-Stibel Investments [1] who backed Tile and Juicero among others.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bryant-stibel-invest...

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Typically, these posts get flagged by users because they realize that they violate HN's guidelines [0]. It's interesting, just off-topic. Not sure what the threshold is for getting flagged vs upvotes, but I suspect it takes far fewer flags that votes.

> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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