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By the way, this submission is getting up so slowly (despite the upvotes) because its title contains "NSA" (which automatically penalizes the submission as reve

By the way, this submission is getting up so slowly (despite the upvotes) because its title contains "NSA" (which automatically penalizes the submission as revealed earlier).

tptacek 13y ago
D'oh! I forgot about that.
endianswap 13y ago
Can you link to this revelation, please? Thanks!
- sp332 13y ago
  http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really... It appears that any article with NSA in the title gets an automatic penalty of .4. I looked for other words causing automatic penalties, such as awesome, bitcoin, and bubble but they do not seem to get penalized. I observed that many websites appear to automatically get a penalty of .25 to .8: arstechnica.com, businessinsider.com, easypost.com, github.com, imgur.com, medium.com, quora.com, qz.com, reddit.com, rt.com, stackexchange.com, theguardian.com, theregister.com, theverge.com, torrentfreak.com, youtube.com. I'm sure the actual list is longer.
- bzelip 13y ago
  and here's the HN post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799854
grumps 13y ago
Normally I'm for this, but this seems to be a valid discussion for HN. I rarely upvote, but I did this time.