This submission received a fair number of upvotes in the first minutes of submission and yet never reached the front page. It's hard to believe that this isn't interesting to HN so why did it disappear?
Is it TSLA fans just flagging this so it doesn't get there? is there some other process that decides posts like this won't get to the front page?
It's possible submissions from Twitter are penalized. If so, I wouldn't be surprised - a site that makes context and nuance all but impossible to convey and that optimizes for emotion and hot takes is probably not a good fit for HN's goals.
My personal opinion is that Twitter should be banned as a primary source.
Yeah, but it's a terrible source. The mods do sometimes replace original sources when a better one comes along, maybe if the only source for something is a tweet, that's a sign it shouldn't be posted at all.
I am not a tesla fan; I am now flagging anything posted about Elon Musk that doesn't directly have to do with his contributions to technology or business and contain some sort of reasonable content.
From memory SEC fined Musk and Tesla and Musk tried playing hardball with them and the SEC immediately doubled the fine. They were willing to start an escalation and Musk finally backed down.
Sounded to me like he was not in a strong position last time and another blatant violation is unlikely to be an easy walk in the park.
The share price has immediately moved, this is just reckless behaviour.
I'm finding some extreme schadenfreude in this considering in the Tesla Q1 2020 update thread posted just yesterday had people defending Musk's tweets because it didn't affect Tesla's stock and he was still earning them money.
Is it TSLA fans just flagging this so it doesn't get there? is there some other process that decides posts like this won't get to the front page?