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Ask HN: Why are the Elon Musk topic submissions being suppressed?

Maybe it was happening before, but I've noticed it a lot in the last few days - every time there is a thread about Elon Musk, it disappears from the front page extremely quickly, regardless of how many upvotes it has (or the speed of them).I knew Hacker News had built in abilities for their moderators to promote and suppress content, but I am very surprised at the topic/consistency of this...

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Re:Y Combinator Failed Startups on Saturday October 10, 2020 @01:58AM (#24736945)
In my interview with her for my B2B startup, she said (paraphrasing) "I never had this problem when running Homejoy, so why would others? I don't get it." Years later, our problem space continues growing like crazy.