> Did you know downvotes by superusers immediately blacklists your post from the top 100
That's not true, and I don't know what you mean by "superusers".
That's not true, and I don't know what you mean by "superusers".
Is that the ranking algorithm? It felt suspicious that these headlines were getting substantial early HN user attention (double digits) but not showing up on the home page.
I know HN isn't a gossip rag, and that we don't tar and feather people, but the story did feel notable.
All of the submissions on this topic are being flagged off the frontpage by users, not moderators.
At the time I came across these threads, none of these submissions were "[flagged]" (or at least not indicated as such in the UI). They had 10-30ish upvotes, all were under an hour old, and yet they were buried on the first and second pages of "new".
Do articles that are flagged once or twice get internally penalized and de-ranked but not shown as "[flagged]" yet in the UI until they accumulate more flagging?
"Once or twice" isn't quite accurate but otherwise, yes, that's how it works.