The reason is flagging by users - flags affect ranking before story becomes visibly [flagged]: >Although submissions cannot be downvoted, flags act as a "super

The reason is flagging by users - flags affect ranking before story becomes visibly [flagged]: >Although submissions cannot be downvoted, flags act as a "super" downvote and enough flags will strongly reduce the rank of the submission, or kill it entirely (flagging is supposed to be used for submissions which break the site guidelines, but that isn't always the case in practice). https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=readme-ov-file#flaggingvouching https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re...