A moderator buried it for reasons explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27305371. Sorry for the delay, but these days you guys need to wait until I'm online to get explicit explanations, because I'm currently the only mod who's posting publicly.
We wouldn't have to ask if you had a public mod log (and banned sites list etc) and a public explanation of the algos that power HN.
Your comment reminds me of hotels - "X is available, just ask". A scheme clearly designed to reduce usage of X. I'm guessing the current audience is quite diverse, as most engineers would see through that kind of BS in about 0.2ms.
