When I first posted it, it rocketed to the top of the front page right away, then disappeared to a few pages back, then a few minutes later came back to the fro

When I first posted it, it rocketed to the top of the front page right away, then disappeared to a few pages back, then a few minutes later came back to the front page. That indicates that lots of people were upvoting it very quickly, and then other people were flagging it off the front page just as quickly. After it see-sawed like this a handful of times for an hour or so, it was permanently marked [dead]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6152006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6152006