[the_mitsuhiko]

> Does anyone know the circumstances regarding why?

As someone working at Sentry my running theory of this is that we're not a YC funded startup and the posts are removed for marketing. Removal in this sense is that the post is still there, but it's pushed down in rankings artificially to be removed from the first two pages.

//EDIT: the explanation given last year was that it "wasn't interesting": https://twitter.com/chadwhitacre_/status/1716947994338021885

[bachmeier]

Just add "in Rust" randomly to any part of the title and you're good to go.

[gurchik]

> The guidelines define “interesting” as “anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.” Surely a real contribution to the OSS sustainability crisis counts?

Arguing about whether the submission meets the guidelines is pointless when it ignores that users downvote what isn't interesting in their own opinion. The moderators are never going to artificially keep a submission active after users have downvoted it just because it meets a definition in the guidelines.

[thinkmassive]

Is it possible to downvote a submission? Do you mean flagging?

That doesn’t seem appropriate for something that’s simply uninteresting, based on the site guidelines:

> If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.

[dragonwriter]

Uninteresting is off-topic, per the guidelines. “On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.” (emphasis added)

[yayitswei]

When you have 500 points you gain the ability to downvote.

[corobo]

That's only for comments, as far as I can see you can't downvote a submission

[whit537]

It is curious that users would downvote/flag our post yesterday but not Colin's post today, which begins, "Yesterday I read a great article from Sentry". I agree it's kinda shouting into the wind to complain. Oh well. :)

[radicalbyte]

It's well known that to get to the front page you have to submit then get two dozen friends (with good rep) to upvote you within a short period of time.

[the_mitsuhiko]

The post was on the front page for a while before it was removed.

[yorwba]

https://hnrankings.info/38001924/ has it on the front page only for one sample and it dropped off to rank 36 five minutes later.

[the_mitsuhiko]

Since the moderation log is hidden I can only guess what happened. But last year we got the confirmation of the removal via email and the explanation was that the post wasn't "that interesting". https://twitter.com/chadwhitacre_/status/1716947994338021885

I expected this again and thus kept monitoring the index page actively. The post stayed on there for quite a while and suddenly dropped off to the second page and then a while later completely.

[xeromal]

Anecdata but I saw it on the front page for a while. I thought this post was just following in that one's footsteps.

[radicalbyte]

Crazy I missed that. That certainly damages the trust I have in this site - it already benefits YC to have this community, they don't need to play favorites.

It feels like we're being treated as a sales funnel when they pull tricks like that.

[apitman]

You can get on the front page with far less than a couple dozen upvotes