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At least HN is super sparkly clean, nothing fishy ever going on around here. Nobody abusing flag privileges, certainly not continuedly. Bottom of page 1:

At least HN is super sparkly clean, nothing fishy ever going on around here. Nobody abusing flag privileges, certainly not continuedly. Bottom of page 1: 30. The Best Free Machine Learning Content on the Web (unsupervisedmethods.com) 6 points by RobbieStats 4 hours ago | flag | hide | discuss page 2: 35. Facebook, Google obliged to decrypt online messages to help gov fight terrorism (abc.net.au) 12 points by whitepoplar 1 hour ago | unvote | flag | hide | discuss Twice the points, a quarter of the time, but it's just so... I'm looking for a really strong word here... inappropriate that it just has to be sunk before it can do any damage.

dpkonofa 9y ago
I'm totally missing your point here. Care to explain it?
- thinkfurther 9y ago
  My "point" is that I'm disgusted at how this story got actively pushed off the front page within an hour. Time pushes articles down, points push them up, flags sink them. Since HN doesn't show flags, comparing stories that are close to each other in position, but differ a lot in points and time passed, or have a similar age and score but a very different position, is kind of the only way to catch on to that. I don't have a problem with that other article being on the front page, it was just the first thing I saw that made it very clear. Do you see a good reason to flag this story? I can't come up with one, hence calling it abusing flagging privileges. Those have been stripped from people in the past and their flags undone, but I guess that's just random and nothing to do with actual site hygiene.
  - brad0 9y ago
    I agree with you. There is definitely some other factors that affect the ranking of stories. Anyone know what these rules could be?
    - thinkfurther 9y ago
      One of them is having a lot of comments in relation to the score, but I don't know when exactly that kicks in.
    - type0 9y ago
      More likely it's because this article is from ABC News.
mrmondo 9y ago
I’m still left wondering how this is not even near the top of HN even this long after it’s posted time...

dpkonofa 9y ago

I'm totally missing your point here. Care to explain it?

thinkfurther 9y ago
My "point" is that I'm disgusted at how this story got actively pushed off the front page within an hour. Time pushes articles down, points push them up, flags sink them. Since HN doesn't show flags, comparing stories that are close to each other in position, but differ a lot in points and time passed, or have a similar age and score but a very different position, is kind of the only way to catch on to that. I don't have a problem with that other article being on the front page, it was just the first thing I saw that made it very clear. Do you see a good reason to flag this story? I can't come up with one, hence calling it abusing flagging privileges. Those have been stripped from people in the past and their flags undone, but I guess that's just random and nothing to do with actual site hygiene.
- brad0 9y ago
  I agree with you. There is definitely some other factors that affect the ranking of stories. Anyone know what these rules could be?
  - thinkfurther 9y ago
    One of them is having a lot of comments in relation to the score, but I don't know when exactly that kicks in.
  - type0 9y ago
    More likely it's because this article is from ABC News.

mrmondo 9y ago

I’m still left wondering how this is not even near the top of HN even this long after it’s posted time...