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Another possibility is that voting rings for _other_ posts flag maliciously to remove the competition and give their posts a relative boost. Maybe author can fi
by lovelearning 10y ago
Another possibility is that voting rings for _other_ posts flag maliciously to remove the competition and give their posts a relative boost. Maybe author can find correlations with other posts that were showing on the front page at the same time as the flagged ones and see how _their_ rankings got boosted due to the flagging.
- chrisrhoden 10y agoThe article is about posts that never receive the "flagged" designation.
- DanBC 10y agoA story is not marked as [flagged] as soon as someone flags it, and flags have influence even if the submission is not marked as [flagged]. See dang's comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13741276 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13741276