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Thanks—comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38517550, which has that article, which presumably gives more background.

In a case like this it's probably best to have the main link be the best third-party report and link to the advocacy site in the comments.

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Move the upvotes (1033 points in 2 hours).

That isn't necessary—I rolled back the clock on the other submission and added enough upvotes that it would be on the front page. (Not quite as high as it was before, but that's standard moderation for any sensational-indignant kind of story.)

Why didn't you move upvotes also? Because of this it disappeared from the first place on the front page.

It's still high on the front page - I was careful to ensure that (more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38521932).

Even if we hadn't changed the URL we would have downweighted the thread from #1. We generally moderate HN to downweight sensational-indignant stories—otherwise the front page would consist of nothing but that. This is standard practice on HN.

What happened to the comments? There was almost a thousand yesterday evening when this was posted.

They're all there! But HN paginates them, meaning you have to click the "More" links at the bottom to see them all, or like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38517550&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38517550&p=3 ... and so on

(There weren't a thousand though, rather around 500—unless there's some sort of catastrophic bug I'm unaware of.)

Something I thought about when working on a news aggregator idea: for similar cases, where multiple sources report slightly different takes, have a kind of a submenu with the list of other sources. Like [similar] perhaps?

Yes, I definitely want to implement something like this at some point. There are higher priorities, and precious little time to write code, so I don't know when we'll get to it though.

Yep, I know how it is. Many thanks for keeping this service up, regardless!

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