[voodootrucker]

Wow, why did this fall off the front page? There's no way it wasn't being upvoted sufficiently watching the flurry of initial comments...

Was this discussion blocked? And if so, is there a particular policy it violated? This discussion seems extremely important right now.

@dang can you elaborate?

[dang]

We can't answer questions we don't see, and the only reliable way to get a message to us is [e-mail]. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. I only saw this one randomly.

Pilfer got it right. I've turned the penalty off now.

[Pilfer]

Looks like it triggered the flamewar detector. This usually happens if a post has more comments than votes, and the post did not reach the minimum threshold (40 points).

[voodootrucker]

Thanks, I never realized that existed.