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>>Strato+(OP)
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>>chrisb+e6
I read HN probably more than I should, and I was pretty surprised to see this has over 500 comments and I didn't see it at all. Turns out it was only on the frontpage for 1 hr. https://hnrankings.info/39205676/

>>gurchi+v6
The way HN is set up, having 500 comments would have contributed to that. The "flamewar detector" the mods sometimes mention seems to take comments/votes and comments/time into consideration then penalises threads.

>>Macha+J6
Yep. The HN users see is highly curated. Mostly by algorithms, sometimes by humans.

>>throwa+F8
You're right. Here's 10 years' worth of me explaining that:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...