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I'm curious why this dropped completely off the home page? Do posts get nixed by mods? If so, why this one? [I don't really care, just curious about the HN mode

• nkurz 11y ago
  I'd appreciate if Dan would chime in, but I think it likely triggered the "Flamewar Detector". I think this is based on a ratio of Upvotes to Comments, possibly adjusted by flags, but I don't think it's been fully described. This isn't a perfect system, as sometimes contentious conversation can be better than non-discussion. But overall it's probably a good to have a temporary throttle until a moderator can make finer grained fixes.