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sillywalk
More HN discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40661703

k8svet
Why did the other submission, with good conversation, just disappear into oblivion with this one in its place? :/
jsnell
It probably triggered the flamewar detector (a lot of comments, not a lot of upvotes). Not surprising given what a horrible title the other post has.
k8svet
And now this submission is just gone. Rather disappointing, this was an interesting topic.

(if this gets restored and someone wants to remove these comments, feel free)

Barrin92
IIRC HN has some sort of flame war heuristic and when comments outrank votes on a submission it gets deranked. Which is kin of unfortunate if it's just ordinary discussion.
ssahoo
HN algorithm is weird. I think it's moderated with manually inserted weights.
dang
jsnell's answer is correct.

We restore these things when we see them but sometimes someone needs to tell us about it! the way to do that is hn@ycombinator.com. (Someone did tell us in this case.)

dang
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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