“Julian Assange’s internet link has been intentionally severed”

[sctb]

We've moved most comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12725427.

[misja111]

I was reading this post when it was still number 11 on the front page, went for lunch and came back, and now it is number 67 on page 3 ...

Does anybody know why this happened? During this last hour the post went from 91 to 140 points so it's not like it wasn't popular.

[benlambert]

This story is now 7 hours old with 164 points, but on page 5.

I count 6 stories on the front page that are older than this with less points, e.g:

  9. Virus stole poison genes from black widow spider (bbc.com)
     155 points by kawera 10 hours ago | hide | 25 comments

Is HN censoring?

[JorgeGT]

It is now in number 110 in page 4, among much older stories.

[glastra]

Same thing happened with another submission on the same story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12724507

[saalweachter]

IIRC HN threads have historically gotten dinged for having a large number of comments, relative to their upvotes. This is supposed to dampen threads that are just flame-bait without being particularly interesting.

So posting 27 comments about "why is this thread not higher up???" just makes the problem worse :-)

[themgt]

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[gragas]

That's from four years ago.