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I was reading this post when it was still number 11 on the front page, went for lunch and came back, and now it is number 67 on page 3 ... Does anybody know wh

I was reading this post when it was still number 11 on the front page, went for lunch and came back, and now it is number 67 on page 3 ... Does anybody know why this happened? During this last hour the post went from 91 to 140 points so it's not like it wasn't popular.

JorgeGT 10y ago
It is now in number 110 in page 4, among much older stories.
- skrowl 10y ago
  I came here looking for it and had to search for "assage" past 24 hours to find it. Something is up. There are things on the front page that are older with less votes.
benlambert 10y ago
This story is now 7 hours old with 164 points, but on page 5. I count 6 stories on the front page that are older than this with less points, e.g: 9. Virus stole poison genes from black widow spider (bbc.com) 155 points by kawera 10 hours ago | hide | 25 comments Is HN censoring?
- dragonwriter 10y ago
  It's political, so it's probably being flagged and demoted for that reason. It's probably triggering the flamewar detector, and getting demoted for that reason. There's probably no need for active censorship by the mods to explain the observed results.
  - benlambert 10y ago
    There was another submission that was on the front page half an hour ago with only a few comments (so no flamewar) and appears to have been directly removed by a mod: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12724507 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12724507
  - sflicht 10y ago
    Of course the existing moderation policy constitutes a background of censorship, so your claims should be evaluated within that contest.
    - dragonwriter 10y ago
      In the sense that all systems of deciding what to publish and how are censorship, sure.
  - EdHominem 10y ago
    There's no read for "real" censorship if your algorithms take care of all the threads you'd find objectionable.
- sctb 10y ago
  Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12727186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12727186.
glastra 10y ago
Same thing happened with another submission on the same story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12724507 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12724507
saalweachter 10y ago
IIRC HN threads have historically gotten dinged for having a large number of comments, relative to their upvotes. This is supposed to dampen threads that are just flame-bait without being particularly interesting. So posting 27 comments about "why is this thread not higher up???" just makes the problem worse :-)
- ZoeZoeBee 10y ago
  It has more up votes than comments, and has a ratio quite common with many of the existing front page stories...

JorgeGT 10y ago

It is now in number 110 in page 4, among much older stories.

skrowl 10y ago
I came here looking for it and had to search for "assage" past 24 hours to find it. Something is up. There are things on the front page that are older with less votes.

benlambert 10y ago

This story is now 7 hours old with 164 points, but on page 5. I count 6 stories on the front page that are older than this with less points, e.g: 9. Virus stole poison genes from black widow spider (bbc.com) 155 points by kawera 10 hours ago | hide | 25 comments Is HN censoring?

dragonwriter 10y ago
It's political, so it's probably being flagged and demoted for that reason. It's probably triggering the flamewar detector, and getting demoted for that reason. There's probably no need for active censorship by the mods to explain the observed results.
- benlambert 10y ago
  There was another submission that was on the front page half an hour ago with only a few comments (so no flamewar) and appears to have been directly removed by a mod: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12724507 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12724507
- sflicht 10y ago
  Of course the existing moderation policy constitutes a background of censorship, so your claims should be evaluated within that contest.
  - dragonwriter 10y ago
    In the sense that all systems of deciding what to publish and how are censorship, sure.
- EdHominem 10y ago
  There's no read for "real" censorship if your algorithms take care of all the threads you'd find objectionable.
sctb 10y ago
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12727186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12727186.

glastra 10y ago

Same thing happened with another submission on the same story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12724507 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12724507

saalweachter 10y ago

IIRC HN threads have historically gotten dinged for having a large number of comments, relative to their upvotes. This is supposed to dampen threads that are just flame-bait without being particularly interesting. So posting 27 comments about "why is this thread not higher up???" just makes the problem worse :-)

ZoeZoeBee 10y ago
It has more up votes than comments, and has a ratio quite common with many of the existing front page stories...