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I don't think they want us to have this discussion :) - http://imgur.com/a/GdMkz

According to me, this should be a top discussion. But the ranking algorithm seems to be way off, like we have been punished in the algorithm.

Any thoughts what this could be?

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This post was subjected to several ranking penalties, not least of which were user flags and the flamewar software. Many meta-discussions end up this way because they were off-topic for HN by virtue of not being intellectually interesting, which is why we're here.

The paywall issue in particular has received plenty of discussion already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989.

Never ever saw that article, thanks

Ask HN posts probably have a higher bar as they're often lower quality or less interesting than news?

I thought the "older" published algorithm was only an algorithm with sum of upvotes on the topic (and comments) with a time decay.

Seems reasonable, but i don't think it true ( considering Ask HN: are just texts in the front of the title).

Edit: It's definatly not in the algorithm, it's a manual ban of some sort :)

Is HN open source or something? How is it that everyone knows this algorithm?

news.arc is open source, however, HN's voting ring and antispam features are not.

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