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Ask HN: Do the pro-Google voting rings get paid extra to flag these articles on Saturdays or do you donate this time? edit: http://imgur.com/wvB8lgH http://i

• DanBC 13y ago
  There are a number of reasons why this article is dropping down the pages, and "pro-Google flaggers" is only one of them. 1) Automated flame detection drops the submission down the page 2) Political discussion gets flagged. Quite a lot of this thread is about US taxes. 3) Lack of upvotes. It only got about 70 upvotes.
  • Steko 13y ago
    It's certainly not #3: with 3 hours and 70 votes it would easily be ahead of #4 in the screenshot (4 hours and 66 votes). Instead it's #27. #2 I don't see why you would flag the topic and not the political comments. Moreover we see plenty of topics where comments go political that don't get egregiously flagged down. #1, I'll plead ignorance on any automated flame detection but I'm very skeptical that's what we're seeing. I'll stick with Occam's razor: time and again the articles this happens to are either critical of google, or favorable to MS or Apple.
    • Steko 13y ago
      It's certainly not #3: with 3 hours and 70 votes it would easily be ahead of #4 in the screenshot (4 hours and 66 votes). Instead it's #27. #2 I don't see why you would flag the topic and not the political comments. Moreover we see plenty of topics where comments go political that don't get egregiously flagged down. #1, I'll plead ignorance on any automated flame detection but I'm very skeptical that's what we're seeing. I'll stick with Occam's razor: time and again the articles this happens to are either critical of google, or favorable to MS or Apple. Examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5716010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5716010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5715231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5715231