Ask HN: Stallman resignation story disappeared from front page

Re:Ask HN: Stallman resignation story disappeared from front... by shkkmo on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @04:07AM (#21003258)

My best guess is that the slightly quicker drop-off was caused by the number of comments exceeding the number of upvotes triggering the "flame war" detector.

There are a number of posts that talk about how HN ranking works, here are the few I could find:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9426040 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16018430

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Re:Ask HN: Stallman resignation story disappeared from front... by gitgud on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @08:44AM (#21004734)

Interesting, I thought there was a flame war detector on here. I've seen it happen to a few extremely polarising articles before.

Is there a way to view hacker news in "flame war" mode?

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Re:Ask HN: Stallman resignation story disappeared from front... by ryacko on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @10:37PM (#21012728)

Go to page 2 of the home page.

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Re:Ask HN: Stallman resignation story disappeared from front... by MichaelMoser123 on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @08:56AM (#21004866)

Wow, that means HN is still running in Arc, didn't know that.

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Re:Ask HN: Stallman resignation story disappeared from front... by shkkmo on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @03:38PM (#21009156)

I have no idea if it still is, though I suspect so. It definitely was running on a modified version of Arc several years ago when the last public discussion I could find with HN staff took place.

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Re:Ask HN: Stallman resignation story disappeared from front... by aliswe on Thursday September 19, 2019 @12:00AM (#21013160)

Don't mean to say you're necessarily incorrect (don't know), but I think that kind of claim will need some basis in order not to be seen as a baseless accusation.

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