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I would be unsurprised if it was also just downvoted a lot because the article is not readable without login.

• ijpsud 7y ago
  If that were the case, wouldn't it have a low score? Instead of 17 votes? I regularly see theinformation.com posts highly upvoted on HN and as far as I know they're all paywalled. Also, it's not on the first 12 pages of the homepage, so there's basically no chance that this hypothesis could explain it, because it would have gotten down-voted to the second or at most third page, and then slowly drifted to later pages as the recent-ness component drags it down. Unless HN's algorithm is really different to Reddit's, that is.
• kick 7y ago
  The actual reasoning has been listed already (you were close!), but I figure I might as well chime in to clear up a misconception: Posts can't be downvoted, only comments.