Ask HN: Why is the RiceDropbox article penalized in the ranking?

If this question is penalized, it's rightly so:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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I flagged it, as I flagged this. I imagine others did likewise.

Your post was killed because many users flagged it. Also, as chomp pointed out, it violated the HN guidelines.

I'm unkilling the post in order to respond.