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[nextparadigms]

It did not get flagged off the front page. I watched it myself how it dropped to the bottom of the page. Getting flagged off the page would've meant disappearing from the top early on. Maybe it's too hard to admit people just don't care much about it.

[cooldeal → nextparadigms]

Then why was it sitting below another article that was posted around the same time but had only nearly half the points?

http://i.imgur.com/uFPTSqR.png

Edit: Even now, it ranks lower than another article with the exact same points posted a full four hours before it.

http://i.imgur.com/Yg5kXJb.png

[recoiledsnake → nextparadigms]

>Maybe it's too hard to admit people just don't care much about it.

Or maybe people who might be interested have already left HN in disgust over a bunch of fanboys and zealots flagged stories that don't fit their worldview, just like it happened to this article too as predicted which is sitting on the 3rd page now although it should be on the front page.