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I’ve been fascinated by this WordPress story, but HN seems to really dislike it. I’m assuming mods are pushing posts like this down, but I’m not sure what rule/

• r721 2y ago
  It could be user flags too: >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 https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented