[internalfx]

Is this getting flagged off of HN?

[gtdawg]

Looks like it. When I first loaded HN 2 minutes after this outage started, the story was #2. Then I refreshed after 3 minutes and it wasn't on the front page at all. Used the search tool to find it and then upvoted.

[internalfx]

Looks like somebody wants to keep this quiet. 65 points in 12 minutes is good enough to be #1.

[sctb]

Outages without any information are not intellectually interesting, and typically neither are the discussions that follow.

[minimaxir]

It is infeasable to keep a global outage quiet.

[grzm]

High comment rates can also trigger the "overheated discussion detector", which will downweight a submission.

[chris_wot]

Perhaps the HN mods should do something about that then.

[grzm]

If you see something like this and you think it's in error, you can let them know and they'll likely be able to respond more quickly. There's a contact link in the footer.

[chris_wot]

You're joking, right?

[minimaxir]

Granted, there’s not much constructive discussion that can happen as an outage is happening.

[internalfx]

Discussion? No, I agree there. But it _is_ relevant "hacker" news right?

[yellowapple]

Probably just the ratio of comments v. votes. Too many comments relative to the number of votes will lower a post's ranking, IIRC.

I'm probably not making this any better by commenting, of course.