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On Friday morning (EST) there was a post on HN about just this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6455391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6455391 It h
by cletus 13y ago
On Friday morning (EST) there was a post on HN about just this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6455391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6455391
It has >1000 upvotes and >450 comments. It was on the front page about 11am and then by noon had disappeared (I stopped looking after about 10 pages).
Honestly, I'd still like an answer as to why. I know pages without links degrade quicker but this isn't what happened here. Nothing drops from top of the front page to page 11+ that quickly.
This company is a scam and it concerns me greatly that this may have been taken down, which raises the obvious question of why. User jdh (Josh Hannah of Matrix Partners), an investor in JustFab, tried defending the company but copped a (deserved) beating from the HN masses to the deceptive (arguably fraudulent) tactics of the modern-day "shoe of the month" club that is JustFab.
As another user mentioned, TechCrunch covered the class auction lawsuit (from 2011?) on the same day.
- eli 13y agoPlease stop looking for conspiracies. Things disappear off the front page all the time. Perhaps it hit the threshold for enough flags, perhaps it just aged out. TechCrunch wrote a whole post on the shady checkout practices on Friday: http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/27/not-so-vip/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/27/not-so-vip/
- minimaxir 13y agoI was the one that submitted the link to that article to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6460697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6460697 It hit #3 then immediately dissappeared.
- EarthLaunch 13y agoThere is all kinds of manipulation going on on HN, who knows how much of it is above-board. Titles change, threads sunk, and more. It's one reason I don't trust the site.
- wenxun2 13y agoI was the OP of the Friday morning thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6455391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6455391 It hit the top spot of front page for a while, then was silently taken down, and my HN account "wenxun" was soft-banned.
- potatolicious 13y agoThis is troubling and deserves a response by pg.