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How do you know that he manually buried them?

• tptacek 16y ago
  (a) Because he did it before with TSA stories. (b) Because one minute there was a 200+ story at the top of the page less than a day old, and the next minute there was no such story at the top of the new page, and yet the story hadn't been flagged.
  • dwwoelfel 16y ago
    According to this comment, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1936734 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1936734, any admin can "kill [an article], mark it as political or whatever, or do nothing". That implies that pg may not have buried it, and that he didn't make some special exception for that one topic.
    • tptacek 16y ago
      All the Egypt stories vanished from the front page at the same time, but I'm not an admin and concede that I could be incorrect about this. He said specifically he was burying TSA stories a few months ago.