You have more comments than upvotes (which is considered a "controversial" post) and more than 40 comments. Unfortunately, that gives your post a huge penalty

You have more comments than upvotes (which is considered a "controversial" post) and more than 40 comments. Unfortunately, that gives your post a huge penalty and is most likely the reason it was knocked off the front page. Personally I think that's silly but I didn't make the algorithm. My suggestion in the future is to be cognizant of your upvote/comment ratio and reply sparingly if you're post is close to being considered "controversial". Here's a link where you can read more about how the ranking works: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...