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Patrick is the loudest, but yes, there is a fairly sizable (but shrinking) anti-cryptocurrency contingent here. It's not unusual for cryptocurrency stories to g

Patrick is the loudest, but yes, there is a fairly sizable (but shrinking) anti-cryptocurrency contingent here. It's not unusual for cryptocurrency stories to get flagged down, though it's not as common as it used to be. A voting ring is possible, I suppose. Certainly possible that the detector thought there was one, though the story had dozens of votes and comments before it dropped off. It actually went from #2 to nowhere that I could find it and then showed back up in slot 119. I've seen stuff temporarily vanish like that before (all kinds of topics), not really sure what causes it. I've recently seen things that behaved like comment voting rings, but that's probably a lot harder to detect, and I can't say for sure it's happening from the available data.

tptacek 13y ago
Sharp drops off the front page are usually either (1) the ring detector, (2) the flame-war detector (not here, though) or (3) aggressive flagging. But as I understand it, (3) really only works with stories in their infancy; by the time a story gets as many upvotes as the Etherium story got, it's hard for flags to make a dent. Believe me, I've tried, many times. :) I'd be willing to bet on (1), the ring detector.
SamReidHughes 13y ago
The anti-cryptocurrency contingent you are talking about is probably more of an anti-cryptocurrency stories contingent. There were a lot of fluff Bitcoin stories in the past, much of which was harmful "drama".