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It'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 hour
by Ajedi32 9y ago
It'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.