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This post made it to the front page, but it looks like it's been removed and isn't being shown. Would anyone happen to know why that is? Assuming it's because I created a new account to post this, but I'd hope that my post wouldn't be completely deranked just because of that?

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Controversial posts are automatically downranked, where controversial means lots of upvote/downvote wars over comments on the post.

If people disagree with each other about your topic, that increases the odds people behave badly when discussing it. HN's algorithm is designed to encourage good discussions, so the post drops in rank.

Huh. Interesting. Thank you - I didn't know that. I can no longer find this post at all unless I go through my profile, so I figured it was manually removed/downranked.

Looking through the comments I don't see anything that strikes me as terribly controversial, so now I'm curious about what's being detected...

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