Moments ago, this post[1] was in the Top 10 (30 points in 5 hours). It is now bumped down to the third page. Is there something I need to understand?<p>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7203866
As others have said, there is a heuristic flame war detector. It seems that a penalty is applied if an item has more than 40 comments, and fewer points than comments. It's actually a good idea, but it has many false positives.<p>That said, if people want to comment on something but don't think it's worth upvoting, maybe it really doesn't belong on the front page.
It's kind of old now, 5 hrs with 30 up votes is sort of stale and it has more comments than up votes so probably got dinged by flame war detector too.