From the HN guidelines: "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by r

From the HN guidelines: "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. "Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html And in this thread specifically, you're complaining about (so far) 11 people who found this interesting enough to upvote. Maybe for its content, or maybe hoping the content/title would spur interesting conversation about cooking techniques. Or maybe half of them were mis-clicks. Regardless, it's only "up in the top" of HN because the site cleverly has a few front-page slots for rotating stories that are relatively new and have a handful of upvotes, to see if a brief front-page exposure is enough to get traction, or if it stays a low number of upvotes it's very quicky back to it's rightful place in the queue. (Disclaimer, that's my memory of how it's been described, may not be exactly accurate.)