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If a post has more comments than upvotes, it gets penalized for being flame bait.

• k-mcgrady 13y ago
  Didn't know that. There was a lot of discussion going on in that thread so that could be what happened.
• phillmv 13y ago
  Which is a hateful policy, in my mind. It in effect says "controversial things are not worth talking about".
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  • forgottenpass 13y ago
    Which is a hateful policy, in my mind. It in effect says "controversial things are not worth talking about". Hacker News is owned by a venture fund. It's not for talking, the talking is just a thing they have to allow to keep people coming back here. I'll leave the task of discerning the obvious goals of YC to run an off-brand subreddit to the reader.