> The discussion of this topic five days ago received 128 points and 174 comments
Interesting. My understanding was that HN yanks a thread off the front page as soon as it has more comments than upvotes, because that's their indicator of being "controversial".
Which never made sense to me, because I leave hundreds of times more comments than article upvotes.
> My understanding was that HN yanks a thread off the front page as soon as it has more comments than upvotes, because that's their indicator of being "controversial".
I have read that a lot of times but this doesn't seem to be the case, I can remember multiple times when I clicked on something on the front page and it had more comments than upvotes.
This is currently on the front page with 245 points and 274 comments:
So if HN doesn't even care...