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Watching this get over 730 likes and 1100 comments and be pushed to the very bottom of the front page of HN. Hm.
by hwers 5y ago
Watching this get over 730 likes and 1100 comments and be pushed to the very bottom of the front page of HN. Hm.
- soared 5y agoIt has been discussed by Dang before that threads with very high comment activity are punished by the algo as they're almost always flame wars.
- hwers 5y agoMakes me wonder if the bot comments like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30220886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30220886 was a ploy to strategically silence this story somehow (by using abusing the flame war disincentivizer feature).