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		leot on March 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stories that Hacker News removes from the front pa... I've been wondering what happened to this story, which was doing better than most but didn't appear anywhere on first 15 hn pages. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12557020 https://twitter.com/trottiest/status/779036903517491200

dang on March 13, 2017 [–]

It set off the HN flamewar detector. That's a software penalty that kicks in when discussions get overheated relative to upvotes. We eventually turned that penalty off on it.

leot on March 14, 2017 | [–]

Interesting. Thanks!

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