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I've been wondering what happened to this story, which was doing better than most but didn't appear anywhere on first 15 hn pages. https://news.ycombinator.com

by leot 10y ago

I've been wondering what happened to this story, which was doing better than most but didn't appear anywhere on first 15 hn pages. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12557020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12557020 https://twitter.com/trottiest/status/779036903517491200 https://twitter.com/trottiest/status/779036903517491200

dang 10y ago
It set off the HN flamewar detector. That's a software penalty that kicks in when discussions get overheated relative to upvotes. We eventually turned that penalty off on it.
- leot 10y ago
  Interesting. Thanks!