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Quick! Something interesting. Let's mark it for deletion!

(Sadly, it looks like they've already made two attempts on this article)

Well, it appears that downvote abuse seems to have somewhat abated after a rash of downvote hordes around the new years (goodness that was annoying)....now they just flag and delete everything in sight when it doesn't fall into their personal concept of "interesting".

I might be mistaken but I think davidw was referring to earlier attempts to delete the article on Wikipedia, not Hacker News.

See, for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion...

From the deletion discussion: "Previous AfD was a trainwreck due to offsite activism."

Translation: People from the "rest of the internet" stepped in to clarify how important they thought the article was, so they decided to declare the discussion invalid.

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