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It already was illegal. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5742925 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5742925

• kyrra 13y ago
  I want to know how that discussion already fell off the front page? did it get flagged off the front page? It has a lot of discussion and a decent number of upvotes.
  • kylelibra 13y ago
    HN detects flame wars and devalues those posts in an attempt to facilitate better discussion. Source: http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/the-evolution-of-hacker-news/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/the-evolution-of-hacker-new...
    • skrebbel 13y ago
      The stupid thing about that is that, because AirBnB is a YC company, all my conspiracy theory bells went off immediately. I hadn't thought about the flame war detection thing at all.
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