I had a really interesting and probably too speculative article about Terry Davis over 10 years ago and it got pulled from Reddit and HN after hitting the front page of both within a minute or so of each other. They had been on both front pages for a few hours and then bam, wiped from both.

Nobody reached out to me but I think even a statistician skeptic would have to entertain the idea that there's some "red phone" style back channel between them mods that occasionally is triggered.

I pulled the article and replaced it with a description of what happened because out of sincerity I felt compelled to follow in whatever footsteps those were. I never got an explanation about it.

Kind of a pity. I had been working on a book on tech and mental health but I abandoned it. Seems like it's an obvious topic these days