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by op00to 877 days ago
It’s not mysterious. Every time this happens it’s because the thread triggered a flame war filter.
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sillysaurusx 877 days ago
That’s not true. A story can disappear from the front page for a variety of reasons, including user flags and manual moderator intervention. There’s no reason to suspect this particular story triggered the flamewar detector.
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kayodelycaon 877 days ago
The number of comments exceeds that number of votes. IIRC, that's one of the factors in the flamewar detector.
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sillysaurusx 877 days ago
You’re right, but they didn’t at the time.
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