[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?

[grzm]

No, I'm not. In my experience the mods are quite responsive, and have explained site behavior on more than a few occasions. They've also adjusted flags and weights of submissions if they identify an issue.