[jacquesm]

There appear to be quite a few flags on the article pushing it down. The ratio of upvotes to age compared to the rest of the front page is a strong indicator of this.

Also: lots of HN'ers work at google. It would be a nice rule if people were told to abstain from using their flagging privileges when the company they work at is the subject of a thread.

[Twisell]

Thanks a lot for investigating. Otherwise I could’nt have excluded that it was only me being paranoid about that.

[jacquesm]

It looks like the situation has mostly corrected itself by now.

[notyourday]

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Absolute power hates when it is challenged in any shape or form