[Springtime]

Could an admin explain why the original news item, previously the highest voted of the first page, was pushed to the third page suddenly? Just wondering if it was algorithmic or manually changed.

[sctb]

Do you mean this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19031055? The standard here is to have one submission about a particular news story at a time on the front page. That one, now 15 hours old, is near the top of the second page, while this one is on the front page.

[onli]

Without wanting to be too offtopic, I assume FB employees are waking up. Isn't there an office in new york? Probably flagged to death.

[dijit]

HN also heavily penalises posts which have a high number of comments.

[onli]

Right, but relative to the number of upvotes the submission does not have that many comments. And it fell just on the start of the workday (right?), see http://hnrankings.info/19031055/.

I am aware that's not a wanted discussion topic normally, but if behaviour related to an article about dirty behaviour smells dirty it feels a bit relevant.

[sctb]

It's best if you email us at [e-mail], because we can look at the actual data. This is mentioned in the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

[sjilo]

Why is that?

[dijit]

To avoid controversial topics and flame wars (and likely to prevent heavy load on the servers since large threads cause significant strain on HN it seems)

[intsunny]

I have seen this as well with controversial topics that make a major tech firm look bad. Specifically the third page as well.