Comment by dang
9 hours ago
It set off the flamewar detector, which is the usual reason that happens.
We'll either turn off that software penalty or merge the thread into a submission of the original Bloomberg source - these things take a bit of time to sort through!
Edit: thread merged from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46836487 now.
It does have an amplifying effect when issues such as this happen to where users who don't read in time won't see this due to the amount of other threads.
Thank you for the insight as to why it happened.