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- lurk2 2y ago> Did you stop reading at the end of that sentence you quoted? I read and ignored it because when I see people making claims like this it sounds conspiratorial. You have been here a while, though, so I’ll assume you know how the rank algorithm works, in which case I would say that the flame war detector you’re describing is the more likely explanation. There were six top-level comments flagged dead when I opened the thread. These kinds of threads hit the front page every day, though, so I don’t get why people act upset that they get flagged when 90% of them don’t belong here.
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- rng-concern 2y ago2 stories about ICE were in the top 5 yesterday and within 60 minutes one of them was at #80, the other I could no longer find. It might not be a conspiracy but these stories do get removed one way or another.
- lurk2 2y agoThey get flagged because they have nothing to do with the forum’s subject. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html