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I'm genuinely curious, this post has over 208 points and is only 3 hours old.. why is it falling off the front page already?

• tdicola 11y ago
  And now just suddenly it's back to near the top of the front page. What's going on HN mods?
  • duskwuff 11y ago
    Not a HN mod, but been around long enough to take a guess: HN penalizes entries (topics? articles? discussions? whatever) that gain a lot of comments really quickly. I think I've seen dang refer to this as the "flamewar penalty". The penalty was probably removed manually, because it was a false positive.
• jrs235 11y ago
  From my understanding there is a formula that factors in the ratio between upvotes and number of comments.