Totally agree. This is essentially a political rant about the politics of Sweden and as such pretty exaggarating. I don't quite understand why it's trending on HN.
(meta) Anything that gets more comments than votes is known to be penalised by the HN ranking algo. Any highly political post like this tends to get more comments than votes, so most of the time it sinks. But, this article is about Sweden, which is outside of most readers' personal experience, so while people still upvote it from agreement with its politics, they don't jump in and start debating it quite so much.
Eventually enough people will flag it or start commenting that it'll drop anyway (a mistake in the algorithm if you ask me, as it makes flags 'super-downvotes') but in the mean time...
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Totally agree. This is essentially a political rant about the politics of Sweden and as such pretty exaggarating. I don't quite understand why it's trending on HN.
(meta) Anything that gets more comments than votes is known to be penalised by the HN ranking algo. Any highly political post like this tends to get more comments than votes, so most of the time it sinks. But, this article is about Sweden, which is outside of most readers' personal experience, so while people still upvote it from agreement with its politics, they don't jump in and start debating it quite so much.
Eventually enough people will flag it or start commenting that it'll drop anyway (a mistake in the algorithm if you ask me, as it makes flags 'super-downvotes') but in the mean time...