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What is the 40 comment penalty?

• hkmurakami 12y ago
  It's the anti-flamewar detector, which kicks in when a thread has more than 40 comments, and there are more comments than upvotes.
• asdfologist 12y ago
  "A 'controversial' story gets severely penalized after hitting 40 comments." http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...