The mods can also manually down-weight and up-weight stories, independent of any user flagging. Some guy did an analysis some months back: https://drewdevault

The mods can also manually down-weight and up-weight stories, independent of any user flagging. Some guy did an analysis some months back: https://drewdevault.com/2017/09/13/Analyzing-HN.html https://drewdevault.com/2017/09/13/Analyzing-HN.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15507821 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15507821