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Hacker News is behaving weirdly with respect to this story:

It's been up for 9 hours and has 714 points but is lower on the front page than "What was the technology stack driving the original Ultima Online servers?" which has been up for 18 hours and has less than half (307) the points.

What's going on here?

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This thread reads more like reddit than it does like HN. So probably somebody behind the scenes sent it on its path downwards.

Might even be the right thing to do, since the whole situation is far from known and opinions boil over.

Who knows.

"behind the scenes" also includes users who flag. There's a small karma threshold for flagging, so many people are able to do it.

Have HN admins addressed comments regarding weighting concerns in the past?

Yes, dang sometimes comments about whether posts were demoted by them or by user-flags.

I think they prefer people to email these questions?

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