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		tptacek on March 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stories that Hacker News removes from the front pa... Right. Stories that get buried fall from the front page to, like, the 50th. Not to the 2nd.

sillysaurus3 on March 13, 2017 [–]

That's not quite true. "Buried" just means "gravity has been increased." Sometimes the gravity is adjusted massively, which moves stories to the 50th page. But it's very common for stories to go from page 1 to page 2. Even more common is to go from rank ~5 to rank ~29.

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