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It’s not flagged. Yet it does seem to be artificially pushed down, even if it is very active: #2 on https://news.ycombinator.com/active

As someone who spends a lot of time reading HN, I would really like an explanation. So if @dang or any other mod reads this…

Of course someone will say this. It was flagged when I posted and until enough HN called them out on it, and so a more deniable approach was taken.

"But it's political and we don't want political discussion on this site," I can hear the lamentations already.

yeah I was really surprised to see this post which has 240 points and over 200 comments within 3 hours got pushed to the third page of hn

... aaand it's gone.

Comments vs points is likely the reason it is gone.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flame-...

Actually, I believe the reason is that this post was heavily "flagged". For the first few hours (1-7hrs) this post had essentially the same amount of points and comments as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50208960

While this one was on page 3-4 and the other post is (stilL) on the first page.