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Because they lead to controversial comments which get flagged at a higher rate and either one or both of the following are true: 1. The algorithm is designed
by anonytrary 8y ago
Because they lead to controversial comments which get flagged at a higher rate and either one or both of the following are true:
1. The algorithm is designed to automatically bump
threads down when the number of flagged comments
exceeds a certain amount or rate.
2. The moderators want to simplify their moderation
duties and manually bump the post down to lower
the comment flux.
- dang 8y agoWe don't do #2. We do downweight flamewar threads, i.e. threads in which people aren't following the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.