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6 points, 27 minutes ago -- Rank 129. What the hell? EDIT: Apparently pg is tweaking the ranking algorithm as we speak as a 838 day old post with 4 points was

• ColinWright 15y ago
  Simple - it's been flagged. Someone, or a few people, have realized that if they don't like something they can flag it and it gets hammered, absolutely hammered, never to be seen again. I'm biased, of course, but I think items that are flagged should be punished in the ratings. Doing that inappropriately buries good items that someone simply disagrees with, and at the same time buries spam that subsequently never gets deleted, because not enough people see it. I honestly think that flagging an item should not affect its ranking. If it's spam, enough people will flag it to get over the deletion threshold.
  • J3L2404 15y ago
    Apparently pg is tweaking the ranking algorithm as we speak as a 838 day old post with 4 points was just in the top 100!
    • ColinWright 15y ago
      Old items occasionally pop up, I suspect in part because they get pulled into memory by someone finding them, and then they mess up the stats a bit It happens regularly and is transient. My items hitting the front page and then getting flagged is common.
  • willvarfar 15y ago
    (how do you know if its been flagged or not?)
    • ColinWright 15y ago
      When it gets 6 points in 25 minutes, hits the front page, then drops to below 150, it's been flagged.