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by markx2 2y ago
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- GavinAnderegg 2y agoI’ve been fascinated by this WordPress story, but HN seems to really dislike it. I’m assuming mods are pushing posts like this down, but I’m not sure what rule/norm they're breaking?
- r721 2y agoIt could be user flags too: >Although submissions cannot be downvoted, flags act as a "super" downvote and enough flags will strongly reduce the rank of the submission, or kill it entirely (flagging is supposed to be used for submissions which break the site guidelines, but that isn't always the case in practice). https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
- Semaphor 2y agoIt had more comments than upvote-points, HN automatically buries high comment to point ratio threads to avoid incitement. Not sure if that applies here, just throwing that out as a possible explanation.
- ablation 2y agoThe thought did cross my mind that, given the focus it has had on HN over the past few days, there may be a concerted effort to try and bury things like this where the sentiment is overwhelmingly against WP/MM/Automattic. Tinfoil hat territory I know, but this really did drop like a stone. It's really the only time in all my years on HN I was genuinely surprised to not find the post 'where I left it' on the front page after a few minutes away.
- rob 2y agoMy post from yesterday, also buried quickly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41712617 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41712617