Ask HN: HN Post Disappeared

5 points·notoriousarun··3 comments

I was pretty happy when the discussion popped onto the front page after 45 minutes or so. Traffic started flowing in and I was looking forward to having some substantial discussion in the comments section. Then all of a sudden it was just gone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25580637

Please explain HN moderators?

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It set off the flamewar detector. That's the "software that demotes overheated discussions" mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. I've turned off the penalty now. We review all the posts that get it, because sometimes legit discussions get hit—but it can take us a while.

Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? They ask you to email hn@ycombinator.com instead of posting like this or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25581608.

This one was particularly excessive because it adds noise to the story feed—and doing this doesn't work anyhow. I only knew about your question because another user decided to help you out and emailed us.

> Please explain HN moderators?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: > Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.

that said, I believe the ranking algorithm penalizes submissions with many comments but not-so-many upvotes, and non-links are weighted less anyways

Discussion link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25580637

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