Content Banned from Front Page, Why?

8 points·ljlolel··4 comments

My submission was getting a lot of votes and active discussion up to 50 votes on the front page (very unexpectedly!) and then suddenly disappeared from the front page and nobody else gets to see it.

Why is this? Is it because it is in Notion?

Secret NSA op?

Horcrux Encrypted Messaging: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24322069#24324516

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It has more comments than upvotes. Usually that's an indication that a flamewar is going on, so submissions like that are downweighted automatically.

In any case, it's back now. Probably the mods got a notification that the flamewar detector was triggered and went to check.

The next time you have a question about HN's mysterious workings, you should email hn@ycombinator.com (contact link in footer). You're more likely to get an answer that way.

it's bad that this disincentivizes me from answering people's questions...

Just always upvote a comment before replying to it - that should balance it out.

That isn't banned. Consider yourself lucky, because lots of stuff does get banned. Take this article for example, submitted by caseysoftware:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24320591

Referring to this article:

https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/political-insider-explains-vot...

You can see it marked [flagged] [dead].

It's a very interesting article that details a number of effective ways to steal an election in the USA today. We could have discussed ways to secure our elections, but the suggestion of corruption probably upset some people. Even if you think that stuff isn't actually happening, you should want to make it impossible because otherwise there will be lots of people who refuse to believe the results of elections. The legitimacy of our government is undermined if we aren't able to prove that fraud of this type could not have happened.

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