So, after I made that comment, something pretty fantastic happened: for the links I provided, the rankings changed pretty significantly. Eli's comments were mos

So, after I made that comment, something pretty fantastic happened: for the links I provided, the rankings changed pretty significantly. Eli's comments were mostly at the very bottom for the links, now they are at the top. I was going to make an edit note pointing out this change since having made my comment, but chose not to. Trust me, the rankban mechanisms exist, some really smart users did some tests to confirm it, and a lot of people are in the know by now. We had this dispute about hellbans, shadowbans, and slowbans, that was much easier to prove. Rankban has been studied pretty extensively at this point, and everyone has been convinced of it. The current effort is to study the downvoteban and policy changes.