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		timr on Sept 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Poll: Are there too many NSA stories on HN, or not... HN has had a long-thread penalty (since well before the NSA scandal) to prevent flamewars from taking over. That's probably what's happening here.

sinak2 on Sept 11, 2013 [–]

91 comments doesn't seem like that many, but that's definitely a possibility.

timr on Sept 11, 2013 | [–]

I think there's a rate calculation. It wouldn't make sense to just arbitrarily penalize long threads. It's postings per unit time or somesuch.

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