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Re:Explaining Sex Rate Changes by anonytrary on Monday April 08, 2019 @01:43AM (#19602443)
Because they lead to controversial comments which get flagged at a higher rate and either one or both of the following are true:

  1. The algorithm is designed to automatically bump
     threads down when the number of flagged comments
     exceeds a certain amount or rate.
  2. The moderators want to simplify their moderation
     duties and manually bump the post down to lower
     the comment flux.
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Re:Explaining Sex Rate Changes by dang on Monday April 08, 2019 @04:21AM (#19603203)
We don't do #2. We do downweight flamewar threads, i.e. threads in which people aren't following the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
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