Ask HN: Why did they nerf the SEC thread?

[moose_man]

It was at the top and now it's relegated to backwater pages.

[akerl_]

Which thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38932228 is on the 2nd page, and my suspicion is that it's there because of the radically higher number of comments than upvotes.

[moose_man → akerl_]

It had way more upvotes before and it was a link to magazine article. They merged a bunch of threads togethers and in the process nerfed it. I think the article had well over 100 upvotes maybe 200 upvotes.

Edit: I'm not sure how merging effects the ultimate upvote count.

[akerl_ → moose_man]

The comments merge. Posts don't merge. The old post is still here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=fals...

[moose_man → akerl_]

I see but whatever is there now has 55 upvotes, but the thread that had the most comments had 319 upvotes (the one I consider nerfed).

[akerl_ → moose_man]

There were 5 threads about this. One is a first party update from the SEC about the issue. One has no engagement. The other 3 were marked as dupes, and their comments were moved to the first party update. Nothing was "nerfed".

[moose_man → akerl_]

It feels nerfy, at the least it is nerf adjacent.

[Zetobal → moose_man]

Well if its feeling or facts we go with facts.