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Why does this show in the HN landing page if it was submitted over 2 hours ago and only has 3 likes while there are other articles with more points that have be
by somid3 10y ago
Why does this show in the HN landing page if it was submitted over 2 hours ago and only has 3 likes while there are other articles with more points that have been submitted sooner?
- NateyJay 10y agoI believe the points shown are upvotes minus downvotes, but the ratio of upvotes to downvotes probably affects the ranking of a story too.
- labster 10y agoStories can't be downvoted, only flagged. More likely it was lifted by the mods for being a good article, which I think it is.
- 1337biz 10y agoSince when do mods "lift" articles? Is there some evidence for that?
- fenomas 10y agoI don't have a source, but I've seen this referenced before and I don't think it's a secret. Also, IIRC there's a (hidden) modifier based on domains that artificially moves submissions up or down the rankings. Suffice to say that article ranking isn't just a function of time and votes.