This is the new standard on HN. People can bury news if they are organized. I agree that this is madness. I have seen the moderators defending this kind of behavior (with "it's out of our hands" type reasoning), which frankly makes me shake my head and wish for a HN successor.
Once you have a sufficiently large group of organized followers - in this particular case pretty much all of the "career C# developers" (there's a lot of them) chimed in by flagging posts that got negative traction to the whole Github-MSFT thing.
Edit: Your post was just flagged by the career microsoft people. Let's regroup at https://www.reddit.com/r/hnresistance/ (I just created that subreddit).
Once you have a sufficiently large group of organized followers - in this particular case pretty much all of the "career C# developers" (there's a lot of them) chimed in by flagging posts that got negative traction to the whole Github-MSFT thing.
Edit: Your post was just flagged by the career microsoft people. Let's regroup at https://www.reddit.com/r/hnresistance/ (I just created that subreddit).