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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.