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Thank you for your detailed reply! I'm amazed to see that it is indeed really that the ranking system was gamed. I was supposing that it was only a mix of bad a

• kick 7y ago
  The ranking system wasn't really gamed. A single extra vote doesn't do much: it won't get you onto the front page, and it won't be a deciding factor in getting you there, either, at the hour this link was posted. Throwing something back into /new isn't gaming the system, and there's no reason why 'dang shouldn't get a vote as well. At minimum it's curation, at maximum it's just a retry with 'dang upmodding it. I say this as a person who read the post, didn't like it, thought about making a snarky comment about how the first time I saw it I thought the person's screen was covered in smudges, and refrained.