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I was pretty happy when the discussion popped onto the front page after 45 minutes or so. Traffic started flowing in and I was looking forward to having some su

• dang 6y ago
  It set off the flamewar detector. That's the "software that demotes overheated discussions" mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. I've turned off the penalty now. We review all the posts that get it, because sometimes legit discussions get hit—but it can take us a while. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? They ask you to email hn@ycombinator.com instead of posting like this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25581828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25581828 was particularly excessive because it adds noise to the story feed—and doing this doesn't work anyhow. I only knew about your question because another user decided to help you out and emailed us.