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Why is this on the second page with 246 points in 1-2 hours? Seems strange...
by joelrunyon 9y ago
Why is this on the second page with 246 points in 1-2 hours? Seems strange...
- md224 9y agoNot sure if you'll see my reply, but this happens often to HN submissions on politically charged topics. The topic gets flagged to death. It's been like this for a long time.
- joelrunyon 9y agoWhy wouldn't I be able to see your reply?
- DanBC 9y agoHN has a couple of things that might be at play here: 1) Users flagged it. There are many reasons to flag a post - it's too political; the discussion is toxic; etc. 2) It set off the flame war detector. This is an algorithm that looks at stuff (who knows? Number of posts? Speed of posts? Depth of posts? Numbers of flags to comments? Amount of votes?) and penalises threads that trigger it. 3) In rare situations mods take action. The mods would be either dang or sctb, and they always say they've taken action.