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Re:Analyzing HN moderation and censorship by dec0dedab0de on Thursday October 19, 2017 @01:05PM (#15509591)
I believe there is an automatic penalty if the comment count goes above the vote count beyond a certain percentage
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Re:Analyzing HN moderation and censorship by ZenoArrow on Thursday October 19, 2017 @01:30PM (#15509800)
Makes sense. That's the clearest indication I've seen of contentious topics on HN (comment count higher than the topic vote count).
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