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dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36346454 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36346454

• paulgb 3y ago
  Apologies for going meta but: is something up with the ranking algorithm lately? I’m surprised that this fell to the second page so quickly given the number of points and recency of submission (there are older articles with less points above it, and it doesn’t strike me as a topic that would elicit a lot of flags)
  • dang 3y ago
    It set off the flamewar detector. We've turned that off now.
    • paulgb 3y ago
      Ah, thanks for the explanation! I’ve seen another instance recently that I suspect was the same thing; I wonder if the flamewar detector has false positives when a story happens to be one that a lot of people want to talk about.
      • dang 3y ago
        It does, and we review those and mostly catch the false positives, though it can take a while. I have the software email me about every case actually.
• dang 3y ago
  Comments moved thither. Thanks!