What's even stranger is that your post is always auto-closed. No matter if I open it, log in, log out .. whatever. Whenever I reload this page, your post is auto-closed.

I default-collapsed it because it's so offtopic. I guess that has a catnip effect when a thread is at #1. But consider how irrelevant all these comments are.

Yes, that is strange.

To quote calcifer:

> "someone with privileges wanted it that way"

And it is off-topic.

Closed for me too

I don't have the authoritative answer or anything but just based on observation, I've noticed that there are (almost?) always one or two new articles with low vote counts on the front page. I assume it's so we don't need so many "knights of new" to make ensure that the content on the front page matches what the masses want to see.

OT but I really don't understand these types of questions. The possible answers range from "because the ranking works that way" to "someone with privileges wanted it that way". On either end of the spectrum, the real question remains: so what? What difference does it make why a particular post is in a particular position? If the title seems interesting, you click on it. If not, you move on.

I don't mean to question you in particular. It just seems like such a trivial concern to me that I truly can't understand why someone might possibly care.

I don't think there's the one real question. Of course you can always ask "So what?"

And why are some posts, like yours, collapsed by default? And some accounts have default auto-dead comments. It's not transparent how this all works.

Edit: looks like another commenter mentioned this too. Sorry for the dupe.

Slow weekend I guess.

OT: What does OT stands for?

Off topic.