Ask HN: Why was this Airbnb HN post that hit 15 votes in 30 minutes removed?

Re:Ask HN: Why was this Airbnb HN post that hit 15 votes in ... by ijpsud on Friday March 27, 2020 @07:26PM (#22707812)

Hi, I'm not sure if what you've posted is a copypasta, but did you read the post? I linked to the post so you can see that it's not flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707365 It's a post with a link to theinformation.com which is quite reputable so far as I know. It is paywalled, but I don't think those are banned from HN.

I also mentioned that it is not my post, but your point #3 is written as if it's mine.

As I mentioned in the reply to the first commenter, it was on the home page (obviously, due to the 15 points in 30 minutes, as I mentioned), and then was gone when I went back to find it.

Is there any way to ping a mod to see why this might have happened? I don't think I can just write @dang or /u/dang, right?

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Re:Ask HN: Why was this Airbnb HN post that hit 15 votes in ... by dang on Friday March 27, 2020 @09:05PM (#22708328)

Of course you can! Email us at [email protected]. As I explained above, that would have been much better. The answer to your question was as simple as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22708065, but when people bring questions like this up in the threads I feel obliged to write an explanation from first principles.

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Re:Ask HN: Why was this Airbnb HN post that hit 15 votes in ... by dylz on Friday March 27, 2020 @07:33PM (#22707860)

I would be unsurprised if it was also just downvoted a lot because the article is not readable without login.

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Re:Ask HN: Why was this Airbnb HN post that hit 15 votes in ... by kick on Friday March 27, 2020 @09:13PM (#22708373)

The actual reasoning has been listed already (you were close!), but I figure I might as well chime in to clear up a misconception:

Posts can't be downvoted, only comments.

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Re:Ask HN: Why was this Airbnb HN post that hit 15 votes in ... by ijpsud on Friday March 27, 2020 @07:41PM (#22707897)

If that were the case, wouldn't it have a low score? Instead of 17 votes? I regularly see theinformation.com posts highly upvoted on HN and as far as I know they're all paywalled. Also, it's not on the first 12 pages of the homepage, so there's basically no chance that this hypothesis could explain it, because it would have gotten down-voted to the second or at most third page, and then slowly drifted to later pages as the recent-ness component drags it down. Unless HN's algorithm is really different to Reddit's, that is.

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