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This received 23 points in 30 minutes, and yet it is no longer on the front-page? Compare that to this [1], which has received 23 points in 4 hours, and is stil
by tango24 8y ago
This received 23 points in 30 minutes, and yet it is no longer on the front-page? Compare that to this [1], which has received 23 points in 4 hours, and is still on the front page. Are some folks flagging this into oblivion?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18095356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18095356
- zbowling 8y agotoo much velocity. probably artificial upvotes. also trying to make HN into a personal army to do achieve a goal doesn't sit well with mods. just report on news.
- andrewstuart 8y agoMaybe thats it. I've taken "protest here" off the title.
- sctb 8y agoYes, most of the upvotes were dropped by the software for being inorganic, but it was user flags that did it in (moderators didn't see it until now). Edit: we've updated the title and turned off some of the flags.
- andrewstuart 8y agoWhat does inorganic upvotes mean? I'm the original poster but I sure as heck didn't do anything to artificially upvote it. I didn't upvote it at all.
- dang 8y agoIt's the software that tries to catch promotional votes a.k.a. voting rings. It does sometimes get things wrong, which is probably what happened here. As sctb said, though, it's user flags that affected the post's rank the most. Perhaps the editorialized title had something to do with that (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18097611 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18097611), and/or perhaps there is just fatigue with this class of submissions. People come to HN for unpredictable things, so whenever something starts to get predictable, they get ornery.
- andrewstuart 8y agoYeah its odd - it doesn't seem to be a post that should be dropped. I've emailed the HN mods to ask if they have any insight. Maybe it hit some sort of algorithm to prevent spammy posts.