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Judging by the upvotes and timestamp on that story (90 points, 4 hours ago), and not being able to find it on at least the first 3 pages of HN (for comparison,
by ilugaslifg 10y ago
Judging by the upvotes and timestamp on that story (90 points, 4 hours ago), and not being able to find it on at least the first 3 pages of HN (for comparison, there's a story on page 3 with 33 points, 22 hours ago)...
That was one of those threads which just gets opaquely disappeared off the front page.
Which is something I've been noticing happening a lot lately. Really big turnoff from participating in this site.
- tobltobs 10y ago> for comparison, there's a story on page 3 with 33 points, 22 hours ago)... The ranking algo might be a bit more sophisticated.
- ilugaslifg 10y agoSure, but that's not all. Or maybe it is -- who knows. Certainly not you or I, because the only information that is public is the score and the date. The problem is the opaqueness of it Which leaves a lot of room for the appearance of capriciousness, and sometimes even (though not so much in this case, this is not nearly that consequential a story) malice. http://sangaline.com/post/the-stories-that-hacker-news-removes-from-the-front-page/ http://sangaline.com/post/the-stories-that-hacker-news-remov...
- chc 10y agoYou can't just compare points because flags don't affect points while they do affect ranking.