[rasengan]

Why is this post sinking? Is someone at HN trying to censor this too like the Tesla stuff?

It has more upvotes in less time than any other post on the front page. The top post has 35 upvotes in 2 hours.

This post is falling off the front page with 81 upvotes in less than an hour.

This is completely sketch.

[dang]

There have been huge threads about this story in the last few days.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Zwiebelfreunde%20points%3E30&s...

When a story is ongoing, moderators downweight follow-ups unless and until they contain significant new information. Otherwise the discussions tend to be repetitive, reacting only to the original event which has already been discussed, and more likely to attract unsubstantive and flamewar-style comments, as well as complaints from other users about the same story reappearing too many times.

This approach is something we figured out after the Great Snowden Avalanche of 2013, and it has turned out to be a good balance that serves HN well.