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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711284 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711284 600+ upvotes, top #1, vanishes from one second to another - whats up

• dang 12y ago
  I answered the question and buried the story for what should be an obvious reason: meta support questions are not on-topic for HN, let alone belong on the front page, let alone at #1. The guidelines explicitly ask you not to post them. I'll add this info to my comment there as well.
  • pajtai 12y ago
    Why did this thread disappear from the front page? It has 45 upvotes and was on the front page initially with just 5 or so upvotes.
    • dang 12y ago
      The only thing affecting these stories is that many users are flagging them. Edit: perhaps more detail would help. The story was initially flagged by enough users that it was killed. We unkilled it for reasons I described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711660. That caused the process which is affecting all these stories to pick up where it left off: lots of upvotes and lots of flags, with the flags winning over the upvotes. As a result, the story fell in rank again—but didn't get killed, because once we unkill something flags no longer have the power to kill it.
      • pajtai 12y ago
        thanks for the explanation