Offtopic, but there's a problem on this site with this kind of story now. I'm not sure if it's the flamewar detection, or flagging, or some other automated system, but stories like this which are very popular and not remotely a flamewar, but an interesting discussion, are disappearing off the home page too fast in my opinion. This is a topic that will define a generation's attitude to technology and the internet, and is particularly pertinent to silicone valley.

Yet this morning this story went from top of the page:

14. NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide (washingtonpost.com) 1395 points by nqureshi 15 hours ago | flag | 533 comments

To behind stories like this:

12. Java Virtual Machine in pure Node.js (github.com) 232 points by binarymax 16 hours ago | flag | 129 comments

I'd be interested to know the reason, and perhaps whatever algorithm is voting this down could be adjusted, because it's clearly not working?