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Being a vote-driven (democratic) site, I think its an indication of how people feel about TC at the moment. You may not like the link being there, but the majo
by esonica 17y ago
Being a vote-driven (democratic) site, I think its an indication of how people feel about TC at the moment.
You may not like the link being there, but the majority of the community seems to be up voting it rather than flagging it, or it wouldnt be at #1.
- nir 17y agoSince there's no way to downmod a submission in HN, the "majority of the community" numbers exactly 14 people at the moment.
- esonica 17y agoIsn't flagging something effectively 'down modding' it? Sorry I don't know much about the HN ranking algorithms.
- goodside 17y agoNo. Flagging brings it to the attention of editors, who decide what to do with it. If they kill it it dies, and if they don't it lives. It has no impact on its rank on the front page if the editors don't kill it.
- blasdel 17y agoStories are auto-killed after a number of flags, and there's been no sanity check against the number of upvotes (pg commented about changing that)
- mishmash 17y agoHonestly? I recently gained downmod arrows on individual comments and had assumed they would arrive for topics with more karma, but that's not the case?
- cglee 17y agoI have no idea why this is being downvoted. Seems like a logical argument to me.