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The submission has a lot more comments than points which makes it automatically get "buried" (removed from the top posts) because it indicates potential fighting in the comments.

Re the karma, I don't belive it's possible for it to go down like that, you may want to email HN to ask them what's going on.

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That's right. The post set off the flamewar detector.

Dan - Would you mind sharing a rough threshold for what "sets off the flamewar detector" means?

In [1] (unofficial), a rough 1:1 ratio is mentioned.

I see that, now, that submission has 31 points and 91 comments, say ~3x comments:points.

Flipping through Active, I see plenty of submissions with a ~2x ratio, and the min around ~0.5x and the max around ~2.5x (on hollywood strike, so potentially heated thoughts).

[1]: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flame-...

40+ comments && comments > votes, according to lore:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25871251>

I took your advice and did that. Thank you for the suggestion.

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