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		sillysaurusx on March 6, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, cal... That’s not true. A story can disappear from the front page for a variety of reasons, including user flags and manual moderator intervention. There’s no reason to suspect this particular story triggered the flamewar detector.

kayodelycaon on March 6, 2024 [–]

The number of comments exceeds that number of votes. IIRC, that's one of the factors in the flamewar detector.

sillysaurusx on March 6, 2024 | [–]

You’re right, but they didn’t at the time.

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