There is a feature of HN that is sometimes called "flamewar detector" that tends to apply various countermeasures to threads that are getting a lot of replies a

There is a feature of HN that is sometimes called "flamewar detector" that tends to apply various countermeasures to threads that are getting a lot of replies and/or upvote/downvote churn. One of the observed effects is that the thread drops off the front page. For example, see this post from moderator dang: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7508443#7509979 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7508443#7509979 You can see more discussion about these behaviors when you search HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=flamewar%20detector&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?query=flamewar%20detector&type=comme...