Typically this is the flame war detector, which looks at comment:vote ratio, among other things.
Hacker News is more of a library where people come to read stuff, and isn’t really a place for political battles like the one happening here. Usually a moderator will manually disable the flame war detector for a thread if there is some hope for it. But it is doing its job as far as I’m concerned, because this thread isn’t really the kind that motivates intellectual curiosity.
Hacker News is more of a library where people come to read stuff, and isn’t really a place for political battles like the one happening here. Usually a moderator will manually disable the flame war detector for a thread if there is some hope for it. But it is doing its job as far as I’m concerned, because this thread isn’t really the kind that motivates intellectual curiosity.