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The way HN is set up, having 500 comments would have contributed to that. The "flamewar detector" the mods sometimes mention seems to take comments/votes and comments/time into consideration then penalises threads.

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Yep. The HN users see is highly curated. Mostly by algorithms, sometimes by humans.

You're right. Here's 10 years' worth of me explaining that:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Yes, this is correct from my observation, too. The comment-to-vote ratios go fast; up south, they will likely be out of the pages quickly. One might think that a post that falls off the homepage would linger on page 2 for a while, but it can be out of even the first 100 posts fast.

I have stopped thinking about HN's algorithms and just let it do its job.

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