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		jacquesm on Aug 21, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How did the Erlang articles disappear on H... Until somebody owes up to doing it by hand my money is on algorithms, caching and flagging. I could easily be wrong though. I've seen exactly one intervention in all my time here on HN and it was well warranted ('Arrington'), other than that nothing that I could point my finger at.

mbrubeck on Aug 21, 2009 [–]

I know that the moderators do "intervene" because sometimes pg talks about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=709370

"There are days when HN seems determined to jump the shark, and the only reason it doesn't is that the editors heave it back."

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