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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.
by 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 agoThe 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 agothanks for the explanation