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Comment by ralphleon | Hacker News Reader

Why do the top links on reddit stop leaving the front page?

This link was #1 for about 10 minutes:

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1cen7i/explosion_...

and now has vanished, along with all other sponsored links. A horrible tragedy like this seems leagues more important than the current top link:

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1cebz2/spotted_cookie...

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I don't know what happened to the /r/worldnews post, but that subreddit's rules do say that it's for non-US sources and news. Also, that post linked to a Gawker site, which for many is reason enough to kill it.

Seems that some other, far better source, should have replaced it by now. There were a few up-in-coming, but they too vanished.

Now trending from a more valid source:

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1cerrp/boston_mar...

During disasters such as this, I appreciate reddit's scale (and diversity) for up-to-date information in the comments.

I think its because the threads are getting too much traffic. It seems like reddit first will make a thread read only then will remove it from the front page, this all seems temporary. This is all from observation though Im not sure the actual algorithms involved here.

That's because the mods keep removing it -- reddit will have some contract with telegraph.uk or other such websites (they pay reddit for the higher traffic)

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