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Ask HN: Does sometimes post get removed from the front page all of a sudden?
There was an interesting (and lively) discussion about Bodega here:
LINK: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15291795
, being 4th in the home page.
I tried to re-read it after 5 minutes and it was nowhere to be found, suddenly being positioned at rank 80.
Seeing how this thread had been active in the past few minutes while the threads around 80 hadn't been active since yesterday it does look a little weird.
- robin_reala 9y agoYes, generally posts with more comments than upvotes above a certain threshold (~40 iirc) get pushed down 50+ positions. They tend to be more argument than discussion.
- sova 9y agoVery interesting. That's actually a rather strong metric.
- gus_massa 9y agoMy guess are: * It was flagged by users * It triggered the automatic penalty because it has much more comments than upvotes For an official answer, you can try writing the mods hn@ycombinator.com
- mattbgates 9y agoSometimes posts just get lowered off the first page pretty quickly. I've seen it happen to my posts.. either from other people posting, or upvoting posts without yours getting any votes at all will likely push it down.