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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

by 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.