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Is this getting flagged off of HN?

• gtdawg 9y ago
  Looks like it. When I first loaded HN 2 minutes after this outage started, the story was #2. Then I refreshed after 3 minutes and it wasn't on the front page at all. Used the search tool to find it and then upvoted.
  • internalfx 9y ago
    Looks like somebody wants to keep this quiet. 65 points in 12 minutes is good enough to be #1.
    • minimaxir 9y ago
      It is infeasable to keep a global outage quiet.
    • grzm 9y ago
      High comment rates can also trigger the "overheated discussion detector", which will downweight a submission.
      • chris_wot 9y ago
        Perhaps the HN mods should do something about that then.
        • grzm 9y ago
          If you see something like this and you think it's in error, you can let them know and they'll likely be able to respond more quickly. There's a contact link in the footer.
          • chris_wot 9y ago
            You're joking, right?
            • grzm 9y ago
              No, I'm not. In my experience the mods are quite responsive, and have explained site behavior on more than a few occasions. They've also adjusted flags and weights of submissions if they identify an issue.
    • sctb 9y ago
      Outages without any information are not intellectually interesting, and typically neither are the discussions that follow.
• minimaxir 9y ago
  Granted, there’s not much constructive discussion that can happen as an outage is happening.
  • internalfx 9y ago
    Discussion? No, I agree there. But it _is_ relevant "hacker" news right?
• yellowapple 9y ago
  Probably just the ratio of comments v. votes. Too many comments relative to the number of votes will lower a post's ranking, IIRC. I'm probably not making this any better by commenting, of course.