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It shouldn't be on page 2 if it's only 2 hours old. I believe this means people are flagging the story.
by kristianp 2y ago
It shouldn't be on page 2 if it's only 2 hours old. I believe this means people are flagging the story.
- gnabgib 2y agoIt's a contentious discussion (look at all the dead comments at the bottom), which it's bound to be. Pretty sure that leads to down-ranking.
- zarathustreal 2y agoInteresting.. wouldn’t that lead to an echo chamber?
- bezier-curve 2y agoI hate to break the hacker news guidelines but this does feel like hacker news is a lot like Reddit.
- BenjiWiebe 2y agoReddit has auto-downranking of contentious discussions!? Anyways, if you are concerned you can email dang (hn@ycombinator.com iirc) and he can fix it. I've had really good luck contacting him about stuff like that.
- dang 2y agoYes, people are flagging the story, plus it set off the flamewar detector, plus we also downweighted it for a while. It's clear that this is one of those "will be reposted no matter what" cases, so I've turned off the flags and the flamewar detector and reduced the downweight.