Comment by johnea
3 years ago
There are many forms of comment repression in the HN comments...
I think each post should go at the top of the comments.
When you write a comment, and it appears after 400 other comments, they might as well not publish it at all...
By default each post does appear at the top. It may not stay there for long, though, depending on what else is going on in the thread.
Also, comment ranking can be affected by account penalties. We penalize accounts when they post in ways that break the site guidelines (or the intended spirit of the site), but not so badly that we would ban them.