General understanding is that the flamewar detector is triggered when posts exceed 20 comments and total comments exceeds votes: <https://www.righto.com/2013/1

General understanding is that the flamewar detector is triggered when posts exceed 20 comments and total comments exceeds votes: <https://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html https://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-reall...> It's not perfect, but it really does often correctly identify flamewars. If you feel a post has incorrectly triggered the flamewar detector, email mods at hn@ycombinator.com. As I write, this thread doesn't trigger the criteria.