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HN has had a long-thread penalty (since well before the NSA scandal) to prevent flamewars from taking over. That's probably what's happening here.

• sinak2 13y ago
  91 comments doesn't seem like that many, but that's definitely a possibility.
  • timr 13y ago
    I think there's a rate calculation. It wouldn't make sense to just arbitrarily penalize long threads. It's postings per unit time or somesuch.