We can't answer questions we don't see, and the only reliable way to get a message to us is hn@ycombinator.com. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. I only saw this one randomly.
Pilfer got it right. I've turned the penalty off now.
Looks like it triggered the flamewar detector. This usually happens if a post has more comments than votes, and the post did not reach the minimum threshold (40 points).
Was this discussion blocked? And if so, is there a particular policy it violated? This discussion seems extremely important right now.
@dang can you elaborate?