[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)