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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
by 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 agoI agree with you. There is definitely some other factors that affect the ranking of stories. Anyone know what these rules could be?
- thinkfurther 9y agoOne 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 agoMore likely it's because this article is from ABC News.