[billpatrianakos]

Let's be real here. Do 99.9999...% of users need or deserve this kind of support? It's easy to have sour grapes and say "oh the big shots get attention but I don't! Not fair!". But then you have to remember that people like PG worked their ass off to get a site like this to become so valuable and popular. We're not talking about some guy's blog about his cat that no one cares about, we're talking about HN here. Is it equal treatment? Of course not but is it fair? I say it is fair.

If fairness is treating people based on merit then it's totally fine. Matt isn't in here saying he's going to manually manipulate the result or change anything on Google's end (save for maybe correcting a flaw that would benefit everyone who's in a similar situation as HN). All he's doing is suggesting possible causes, trying to make a diagnosis, and just troubleshooting.

Most people who want this attention don't deserve it. They're the type of people who won't use the resources available like the google help documents or even learning how to administrate a site for best results in search engines. Plus, most people's website just aren't worthy of this attention.

I could go on but lets look at the reality here. We're all knowledgeable of how the web works here so let's just admit that HN is a damn popular site and it definitely seems like a fluke to have it rank as it was when this was submitted.