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Flags affect a story's ranking before the title says [flagged]. The flamewar detector software also kicked in (which accounted for the initial dramatic drop in rank), but we turned that off, despite the actual flamewars.

>> Despite the many upvotes, numerous comments, and recent post time, this submission no longer appears on the front page.

What you're witnessing is an example of the very thing the article is about. Calling out the SJWs on their bad behavior is not acceptable.

133 points in 2 hours and it's not anywhere on the front page. Meanwhile, the current top post has 97 points in 3 hours.

What is going on?

Agreed. It went from #2 on front page, to #215 in half an hour.