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META: This submission appears to have become victim of the "flame war detector" where comments > points gets it hidden: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20

• m463 6y ago
  > dang: > We usually call it the overheated discussion detector now, even though the phrase is clumsy, because sometimes the discussions are just low-quality rather than outright flamewars. I think that's fascinating. Lots of niceties behind the curtain. (maybe the opposite of most sites, sort of like stopping trading)