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Wow This slid off the front page fast. It went from #1 to #33 in the time it took me to brush my teeth while I get ready for work. You can tell an article hits
by burger_moon 9y ago
Wow This slid off the front page fast. It went from #1 to #33 in the time it took me to brush my teeth while I get ready for work.
You can tell an article hits home when people are flagging it to death to hide it.
- qrpike 9y agoNow it's 215+.... Very strange
- Jtsummers 9y agoFlame war detection. I don't know how advanced it is, but it's partly based on the number of comments and depth of comment threads, and their rate of growth. If you have a handful of very deep threads that have grown in just a short period of time, it's often a sign of negative, hostile discussions. When detected, those posts get their score (for how they should be ordered) severely reduced.
- sctb 9y agoYes, this thread tripped the overheated-discussion detector. We've turned it off for now, but it's not exactly a false positive.
- TeMPOraL 9y ago> You can tell an article hits home when people are flagging it to death to hide it. Where "hits home" means "outrage-inducing" and "divisive". It's perfectly understandable to flag such things, in order to prevent the place from degenerating into a typical discussion board, where people are up each others' throats over trivia instead of trying to create something useful together.
- calebgilbert 9y agoSaid 'flame war detection' services are amazing on how consistently they skew toward silencing any right of Chairman Mao posts.