Comment by ChrisArchitect

Spammer wonders why stories are being "removed".

How can you complain about your submissions getting hundreds of upvotes and a bunch of discussion over the last 4 months only. That's a decent amount of eyeballs.

Other than the blatant offtopic/spam ones, most of them are just ones that have drifted away and are old news, or flagged, or dupes. It's driven by the flow of the site and its users.