I didn't mean to imply that you weren't taking it seriously. I didn't even "not like it". But in comparison to the quality of the things that normally make it

I didn't mean to imply that you weren't taking it seriously. I didn't even "not like it". But in comparison to the quality of the things that normally make it to the top spot, it didn't even seem close to possible that it got there naturally. It was also not a new service - according to the site, it has been up since 2010. It's rare that a service offering that is 6 years old suddenly becomes really popular on HN. Possible, certainly, but unlikely. I could be wrong, but I believe I've flagged exactly one post in my ~5 years of daily use on HN - this one - and have publicly made the observation that someone may have gamed the voting system maybe two or three times in that time. So I'm not prone to making accusations based upon "cognitive bias," and looking at the comments, I'm not the only one that thought something odd had happened here. I also assume it took more than just my flag to have flagged the article off the home page. It just seemed very out of place, to myself and others. If my assumption was wrong, I apologize to OP.