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>>donsup+(OP)
Another negative story about a YC company which has risen to the front page of HN and then seems to be getting a lot of pressure to get ranked down. It has more points and is fresher then a handful of other stories on the frontpage but ranks lower and is falling quickly. And when mentioned in the past, the reason often is the invisible anti-flamewar or similar features. What is it this time?

Elon needs to buy HN and open source the algorithm! /s

>>eis+7O
> anti-flamewar

This is a story about a company 1) in the crypto space, that 2) lost all of it's users money, and 3) used misleading disclaimers (and potentially trying to change them after the fact)

It has already devolved in multiple threads to discussion about what is-and-is-not technically a ponzi scheme (vs other forms of scams/fraud).

This whole thing is a recipe for a giant flame war.

>>nrmitc+JO
To be fair, do you really expect a community as nerdy as this not to engage in pedantry about semantics? I would anticipate that in every discussion, inflammatory or not (I might even participate).

>>Cederf+FS
Kind of beside the point, because pedantry about semantics with respect to "what kind of scam/fraud/etc was it that lost $42M of user's funds" leads directly to flamewar-style threads, which is what can reasonable cause a story to be deranked due to and anti-flamewar filter.