Yes, people are flagging the story, plus it set off the flamewar detector, plus we also downweighted it for a while.
It's clear that this is one of those "will be reposted no matter what" cases, so I've turned off the flags and the flamewar detector and reduced the downweight.
Reddit has auto-downranking of contentious discussions!?
Anyways, if you are concerned you can email dang (hn@ycombinator.com iirc) and he can fix it. I've had really good luck contacting him about stuff like that.
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It shouldn't be on page 2 if it's only 2 hours old. I believe this means people are flagging the story.
Yes, people are flagging the story, plus it set off the flamewar detector, plus we also downweighted it for a while.
It's clear that this is one of those "will be reposted no matter what" cases, so I've turned off the flags and the flamewar detector and reduced the downweight.
It's a contentious discussion (look at all the dead comments at the bottom), which it's bound to be. Pretty sure that leads to down-ranking.
I hate to break the hacker news guidelines but this does feel like hacker news is a lot like Reddit.
Reddit has auto-downranking of contentious discussions!?
Anyways, if you are concerned you can email dang (hn@ycombinator.com iirc) and he can fix it. I've had really good luck contacting him about stuff like that.
Interesting.. wouldn’t that lead to an echo chamber?