Ask HN: What happened to the “Drop Dropbox” thread?

10 points·sroerick··4 comments

The page is still availiable here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8394331

The post does not show up on the homepage. It appears to have been subject to some sort of moderation. Can anyone explain what happened to it? I was quite interested in the results and subsequent discussion.

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(The current post was killed by user flags.)

The post you're asking about broke the rules around voting rings [1], so we gave it the standard voting ring penalty. We err on the side of penalizing posts less, not more, when they're negative about YC-related stuff. But that doesn't mean they get a free pass.

The HN guidelines ask you not to post questions like this to the site. If you have questions about HN moderation, please email them to hn@ycombinator.com.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8396284

It was posted 12 hours ago, there's been numerous posts in between the time posted and now that have several hundred "upvotes" on other threads, and given they're newer I'm doubt it'd have much hold over them.

Nothing to see, keep walkin'.

It's still very visible on the list of "active" (heavily discussed) threads.[1] Sometimes heavy discussion in certain patterns triggers the flamewar detection automated software, which causes threads (and subthreads under a particular story) to drop in page placement. Don't worry about it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/active

Dropbox is funded by Y-combinator, the folks who bring you this Hacker News forum. Perhaps there is a conflict of interest here?

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