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Re:Poll: Are there too many NSA stories on HN, or not enough? by timr on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @05:22PM (#6370227)
HN has had a long-thread penalty (since well before the NSA scandal) to prevent flamewars from taking over. That's probably what's happening here.
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Re:Poll: Are there too many NSA stories on HN, or not enough? by sinak2 on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @05:36PM (#6370299)
91 comments doesn't seem like that many, but that's definitely a possibility.
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Re:Poll: Are there too many NSA stories on HN, or not enough? by timr on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @05:37PM (#6370301)
I think there's a rate calculation. It wouldn't make sense to just arbitrarily penalize long threads. It's postings per unit time or somesuch.
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