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Almost every time this happens it's because of the flamewar detection. When a story gets almost as many comments as upvotes, this factors into its rank. There
by codezero 13y ago
Almost every time this happens it's because of the flamewar detection.
When a story gets almost as many comments as upvotes, this factors into its rank. There are probably other things that cause the flamewar detector to kick in.
- lucb1e 13y agoI see, hmm. On the one hand the flamewar detector makes the community a better place; on the other it simply suppresses news that triggers opinions, even though the news itself may be of interest. Not sure that I'm in favor of this, but thanks for the explanation!
- codezero 13y agoWell, if the story got more upvotes, it wouldn't be a problem. It got some time in the sun, then went away. I think the algo (assuming that's what it is, and it probably is) works pretty well and it's not a huge loss that things that are purely about discussion don't sit on the FP for a really long time.
- Houshalter 13y agoThat doesn't make a lot of sense as the article doesn't have more comments than upvotes (which btw isn't even abnormal for an HN post, including this one.) Also that's a really bad system. I come to HN for the discussion.