Why was the Peter Thiel thread removed?

5 pointsanon93849294y ago12 comments

There was a positive discussion around Peter T. that was just removed. Can HN advise why it was taken down?

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still there? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30238620

Only with direct link, you’ll notice it’s suddenly not on any of the first 10 pages despite being one of the most, if not the most, active threads during that time. I can keep clicking to see if it’s on the 20th or something, but if that’s the case, would be helpful for HN to explain that behavior as well to avoid us attributing it to maliciousness in the future.

pwg4y ago

It (the post) received only 38 up-votes in the three hours it has been up.

Since story ranking for the front page appears to be in part based upon number of up-votes per unit time, it is very possible that only 38 votes over a three hour period was simply not a fast enough up-vote rate to keep it on any of the first X pages below the front page.

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anon2020dot004y ago

Good riddance, basically HN is a hate-speech and rant free-zone and it's better for it.

errcorrectcode4y ago

Hmm. Why then do I see so many item comments blasting the media as "biased a particular way" and dismissing articles outright with derision? I see a lot of knucle-dragger-signal comments brigading like this, and it's disappointing.

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