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Ask HN: Did my post get penalized?
My weekend project, jobpoacher, got a lot of upvotes, which was awesome, but it seems to have just dropped 20 spots in the rankings.
Was I penalized for some reason?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3557805
- polyfractal 15y agoMaybe someone flagged it, but probably not. Mondays are just highly-active times - posts rise and fall quickly.
- ferrofluid 15y agoIt has a lot more upvotes than other posts above it, per hour, and it dropped something like 15 spots instantly.
- bluemoon 15y agoYeah it has 127 karma and it was just on the front page, I don't think flagging has that much weight
- mrsebastian 15y agoDepends on who does the flagging, I think. Some flags are, like, an instant 10-spot demote. Some kick it from the 'news' section of the site completely (but still visible in 'newest'). I suspect there's a 'small flag', too, that doesn't drop the post's ranking unless enough small flags are accumulated. It's all a bit blackboxy :)
- polyfractal 15y agoIt could be buggy too. The "Ask HN" section is chronically messed up, showing low-karma posts from days/weeks ago when there are active, high-karma posts being pushed a few pages under. Or it could be some over-eager powerful flagger :)
- heyrhett 15y agoCrazy, I don't even see this post in the ask section anymore.