Ask HN: Why my Ask HN is gone?

Posted by speeder on Sunday February 03, 2013 @03:37PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I made a Ask HN post, that got 7 points and about 10 replies in 20 minutes and then poof, it was gone from the "ask" list.

Why?

I think it maybe has to do with flagging, so I throw a second question: how flagging actually work?

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Re:Ask HN: Why my Ask HN is gone? by xijuan on Sunday February 03, 2013 @04:43PM (#5161289)

I feel that the Ask section has been changed recently. Sometimes a very very old post will suddenly be on the front Ask page. Sometimes, an Ask post never gets to the Ask section and this happened to me once. There was one day when I couldn't comment on many of the Ask posts. I was going to ask a similar question as yours.

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Re:Ask HN: Why my Ask HN is gone? by tverlinden on Sunday February 03, 2013 @03:46PM (#5161078)

It's still on the list, at #363 as of this posting.

It can also still be reached here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5160680

As to why it's so low on the list, I'm not sure.

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Re:Ask HN: Why my Ask HN is gone? by meric on Sunday February 03, 2013 @04:08PM (#5161157)

I think you got flagged for "humblebragging".

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Re:Ask HN: Why my Ask HN is gone? by L4mppu on Sunday February 03, 2013 @04:03PM (#5161136)

Ask section seems to keep same few post on top for long time and just barely show others.

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Re:Ask HN: Why my Ask HN is gone? by xijuan on Sunday February 03, 2013 @07:35PM (#5161858)

I can no longer find this post now on the front "Ask" page..It is so weird.

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