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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
No moderator touched this post. Moreover, it spent 10 hours on the front page.

Your comment makes me think you might be under a misimpression of how HN moderation works, so here's a refresher.

We moderate HN less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is the story. That doesn't mean we don't moderate at all (though in the case of this particular thread, we literally did not moderate it at all—any perception that made it seem that we did was completely mistaken). This is literally the #1 rule of HN moderation. It's the first thing that PG drilled into me when he trained me to do this job years ago. I hadn't even had a chance to grab a chair yet.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

The reason we have this rule is that the good will of the community is literally the only value HN has, and that is not worth risking.