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The HN ranking algorithm buried this post really quickly. Right now it has 466 points, 229 comments, is 1 hour old, and ranked at #32. For comparision, https:
by KerrickStaley 10y ago
The HN ranking algorithm buried this post really quickly.
Right now it has 466 points, 229 comments, is 1 hour old, and ranked at #32.
For comparision, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13725093 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13725093 has 197 points, 39 comments, is 4 hours old, and ranked at #13.
Does anyone know why the ranking algorithm demoted this article and not the other (even though this one is younger and more popular)? I know it applies penalties for certain sites and if an article is deemed "controversial" (more comments than votes), but I don't think either would trigger here.
- mythrwy 10y agoAmount of downvotes on posts?
- Bahamut 10y agoPeople could be flagging this too
- mjmsmith 10y agoTrump apologists downvoting/flagging. They seem to have infested HN to a greater degree than other tech sites for some reason.
- mememachine 10y agoOr paid upvotes.
- tim333 10y agoI doubt the algorithm did it. It was probably ranked down by the moderators as too political and not tech enough. more stuff algorithm stuff here http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
- grzm 10y agoThere's also an "overheated discussion detection" algorithm that takes into account comment rate, which I'm sure got triggered for this submission.