> it seems unusual that it would displace things like the Assange story, which has over 800 comments. Lots of comments on an article can hurt its ranking, per

> it seems unusual that it would displace things like the Assange story, which has over 800 comments. Lots of comments on an article can hurt its ranking, per https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flame-war-detector https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flame-...