[shaggyfrog]

There might be a brief back & forth between users flag/vouch but yes, it seems to be getting shitcanned simply because it's about PG. With 22 upvotes currently, I would hope @dang can keep it on the front page for a while.

[dang]

Users flagged it. Moderators didn't touch it or even see it.

We sometimes turn off flags when an article contains significant new information and can support a substantive discussion in the community, but this was not that.

HN hosts tons of discussion about PG, much of it negative, so that's not the issue. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25325716 was just yesterday.

[shaggyfrog]

This article has almost as many upvotes as that one you’ve linked to, so the criteria doesn’t seem to be very clear.

[dang]

Many more users flagged this one. It's that simple.

[ashtonkem]

Without taking sides on this, the rapid deletion and downvoting of this article is not a super great look for this community, even if it’s just a bunch of people who like PG and don’t like criticism of him.

[4cao]

It might have also had something to do with the fact that the subheading of that article was incendiary (literally).

[ashtonkem]

Michael Church definitely has an axe to grind, and it’s certainly fair to complain about that. I personally think that he’d sway more people to his side of thinking with a less acerbic style, but that’s just me.

The issue is that a polemic against PG gets downvoted and removed, but Taleb’s polemic against Nate Silver doesn’t. It certainly makes it look like the subject of a polemic is more important than the tone or content of the article being posted for very specific people.

[whymauri]

The subheading is really unfortunate. I don't always agree with pg, but I think Y Combinator is a great thing.

[gdix]

It might also have to do with the fact that the author removed it from their own site and the link is now dead.