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by brudgers 4776 days ago
HN is statefull. The software manages it with user input. Sometimes HN even gets managed at the REPL.

The system isn't designed to be perfectly fair. It's designed to work, not to be purely functional. Anyway, there is no objective measure of merit for any submission or comment.

As CollinWright says, he would have flagged the thread because of the tenor of the discussion. This is not flagging the article or killing the story. It's taking the discussion off the front page.