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Penalties can be applied for various keywords or voting patterns. Perhaps the voting ring detector was tripped?

• tarruda 12y ago
  Seems to be the cause, just found this: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
• tarruda 12y ago
  The penalty applied to this post seems really unjust. 138 points in two hours ranked 20th, in contrast with the 2nd place which has 130 points and also was posted two hours ago.
  • shocks 12y ago
    Yes I agree. I'd like to know what the penalty here is. Keyword based? I've read (somewhere) that "vim" gets a penalty, perhaps "neovim" does now too.
    • blumkvist 12y ago
      Why does vim get a penalty?
      • dang 12y ago
        Of course vim doesn't get a penalty. How do people come up with these things?! Edit: removed joke about being an Emacs user. Must learn not to do that.
  • davis 12y ago
    Yup. And now its off the homepage even though it should still be in the top 10.