To be fair, the reddit thread is much better than any press article including this one. However that doesn't explain why this one didn't rise up since it was posted hours earlier and had plenty of votes. I've seen other The Verge articles fail to reach the front page before. I suspect The Verge links get a pretty severe ranking penalty automatically applied. I don't know why, though.
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To be fair, the reddit thread is much better than any press article including this one. However that doesn't explain why this one didn't rise up since it was posted hours earlier and had plenty of votes. I've seen other The Verge articles fail to reach the front page before. I suspect The Verge links get a pretty severe ranking penalty automatically applied. I don't know why, though.
When something like this gets a lot of votes, I always imagine that the mods will notice and then link something better, like http://www.spacex.com/news/2015/07/20/crs-7-investigation-up...
If I wanted to read a reddit thread, I know where to find it.