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Comment by rameerez | Hacker News Reader

Hey HN! Did I do something wrong? I got a Twitter notification that this reached the frontpage, went to check it and it did, had like 48 upvotes, checked it again a minute after that and it's now buried in "new" with 20 upvotes. First time at HN – sorry if I made some mistake

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I believe submissions from Twitter are down-weighted by default. As for changes in the number of votes, I suggest you email the mods via the Contact link in the footer for a definitive answer.

Just contacted them, thank you for the suggestion!

That sounds to me like it was probably submitted twice, one got upvoted and then flagged.

As I understand it, you can't downvote posts. So a post should not drop from 48 points to 20.

Might be, but I've only seen my submission + I'm 100% sure I saw this precise post in the frontpage with 40+ upvotes :/

There is a search function at the bottom of the page. I will suggest you double check.

Thanks! But yup, searched it and I only see my own submission :/

I wouldn't worry about it too much. I imagine after the many facebook posts these past few days, many people downvote or flag them immediately.

You can flag posts. That counts as a downvote (or more).

If I had to guess, I'd say the submission got heavily penalized for being trollbait. Either by the mods, or by the community.

Flags affect ranking (which might be what you're getting at), but they don't change the number of votes displayed.

HN has an aggressive automatic voting ring detector. That might account for the lost votes. But emailing the mods is definitely the right way to find out.

I didn't do any of that shady stuff, just submitted it and waited. I just wrote the mods, thank you!

are you sure that you didn't mistake the 48 for 18?

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