Ask HN: Is “GitHub, f*ck your name change” being suppressed?

3 points by jpillora 5 years ago | 3 comments

"GitHub, f*ck your name change" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26487854 currently has 3113 points (highest voted I've seen in a long time) and is only 16 hours old, however it is on page 2, why is this? Maybe because of the title?

vermilingua 5 years ago |

HN deranks posts when the comment/vote ratio gets higher, because a high number of comments usually indicates flamewarring. For better or worse, this is applied to everything; no, this particular post is not being suppressed, there have been more incendiary titles sitting for longer on the front page.

jpillora 5 years ago | |

Interesting, thanks for the reply

approxim8ion 5 years ago |

It was right on top of the front page yesterday. Probably just aging to allow new posts to show up.