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Controversial posts are automatically downranked, where controversial means lots of upvote/downvote wars over comments on the post. If people disagree with eac
by yodon 2y ago
Controversial posts are automatically downranked, where controversial means lots of upvote/downvote wars over comments on the post.
If people disagree with each other about your topic, that increases the odds people behave badly when discussing it. HN's algorithm is designed to encourage good discussions, so the post drops in rank.
- paige_d 2y agoHuh. Interesting. Thank you - I didn't know that. I can no longer find this post at all unless I go through my profile, so I figured it was manually removed/downranked. Looking through the comments I don't see anything that strikes me as terribly controversial, so now I'm curious about what's being detected...