Scott stopped working on HN about 18 months ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25055115

Scott did leave: looks like I forgot to update it. Will do now.

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For your list of downranked content: it looks like crypto is either downranked or banned.

It isn't. Such threads often get a lot of flags, though. I assume that's because it's at such a late stage in the hype cycle. The huge amount of repetition (not to mention near-spam) makes a topic less interesting.