Looks like this thread was killed by the flamewar detector and then resurrected? Or was it flagged? It troubles me when conversations on HN are just "disappeare

Looks like this thread was killed by the flamewar detector and then resurrected? Or was it flagged? It troubles me when conversations on HN are just "disappeared" like that. For those who didn't notice: this article disappeared from the front page, and another related submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7105451 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7105451) eventually rose to the front page, where I commented that this was strange and linked to my post on the matter (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7105414 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7105414). The newer submission was then killed and this article was resurrected. My post was also briefly killed, though it was brought back with a reduced rank. Not sure what happened, but it's all a bit confusing.