Someone submitted an article of mine that's doing well on hacker news, but I don't see it on the front page? This has happened before; I'm confused about how this works, what's going on?
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=295808
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If comment to upvote ratio gets too high it gets deranked. Eg now 200 comments for 100 upvotes. It's called the HN controversy derank thingy to avoid flamewars
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Love all the people in the comments who aren't sure whether gay men or lesbians have more sex. They're so innocent and pure.
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Contentious articles with contentiousness comments get deranked to avoid flame wars. This probably happened to your article.
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