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Thanks for this pointer -- I'm pretty sure I did get soft-banned on HN; this post doesn't appear on the front page even though it briefly did and is well under

by trevyn 11y ago

Thanks for this pointer -- I'm pretty sure I did get soft-banned on HN; this post doesn't appear on the front page even though it briefly did and is well under the points/time threshold for doing so. Since HN is a recruiting tool for YC, I can see how something even vaguely resembling a job post would be stepping on their toes.

minimaxir 11y ago
Self-posts have an inherent penalty.
- i336_ 11y ago
  Huh, TIL.
i336_ 11y ago
The voting code in the copy of Arc HN runs is not public (the rest of it is - https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc) because apparently business decisions are made off of it and it would be trivial to game it. That said, I'm fairly certain it involves some kind of "keep the ball afloat" algorithm, where more upvotes in a smaller time period gives it a higher internal score than a slower sequence of upvotes would. This post has been upvoted very slowly, and I theorise this is why it's on page >2.