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Sorry, I mean it was nearing the top of the homepage, and then it was removed from the homepage. The post still exists (hence my link to it in the original post

• e12e 7y ago
  Doesn't appear to be flagged, has 19 points. Most likely it fell through on point/new-ness(age) and dropped off the front page. I believe new posts are weighted a bit higher - but there is also some threshold going from "new" to front page. This appear to me to be a typical "almost interesting" (as judged by up-votes) - made it to the front page, but then got overtaken by other posts. Ed: the current code behind hn isn't open source, but it might still resemble this to some extent: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/apps/news/news.arc#L415 https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/apps/news/...
  • ijpsud 7y ago
    15 points in 30 minutes? I have enough experience with HN to be near 100% confident that it should have been on at least the first 10 pages. It was completely missing. Honestly, I'd be nearly 100% confident that with a score like that in 30 minutes it should have been near the top of the first page (like it was one second, and then completely gone the next). I'd have guessed that it was a part of some sort of filter - perhaps a "voting ring" was detected or something, but I'd really like to hear from a moderator, or something, because this seems a bit strange.