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Why do you say it was censored and removed? It's dropped down to page two, but that's perfectly normal once something has been on the front page for a while.
by HerraBRE 9y ago
Why do you say it was censored and removed? It's dropped down to page two, but that's perfectly normal once something has been on the front page for a while.
- Ajedi32 9y agoIt's only been 5 hours since it was posted, and the story has ~450 upvotes. In contrast, I see another story on the front page right now that was posted 18 hours ago and only has ~250 upvotes.
- RandomBookmarks 9y agoIt could be the algorithm: Maybe the original EU story got many downvotes from HN users that work at Google?
- humanrebar 9y agoIs there a way to downvote stories? Maybe you mean it was flagged?
- polishTar 9y agoYou can't downvote posts
- mortehu 9y agoBut you can comment, and posts with many comments are penalized.
- gervase 9y agoA big factor of the ranking algorithm is related to the number of comments; as the number increases, the ranking of the article goes down. This is intended to penalize controversial articles that may result in flame wars. This article has <200 comments, while the other one has >400; this is likely a significant factor in the falling ranking, in addition to the age. I also believe that upvote velocity is weighted more heavily than upvote quantity, but I could be wrong there.
- kenjackson 9y agoThe comment algorithm seems backwards. I hope HN at least does sentiment analysis to see if the flavor of the comments tends toward being negative before downgrading the post.
- magila 9y agoThe HN mods routinely drop stories off the front page which they apparently deem overly political. I've seen many political stories instantly drop from the top 10 to page two.