Ask HN: Stallman resignation story disappeared from front page

Re:Ask HN: Stallman resignation story disappeared from front... by ecmascript on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @03:51AM (#21003191)

Yes? It is not currently even on page 3 or 4 even if it got almost 2000 points. This is probably due to moderated behavior or else it would still be on the frontpage since it's such a big story.

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Re:Ask HN: Stallman resignation story disappeared from front... by nabla9 on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @04:15AM (#21003291)

The old HN ranking algorithm is roughly:

    (votes - 1) / ((item_hour_age+2)^1.8)

The current ranking might have some tweaks, but there is exponential decay.

It meas that using the old algorithm, the article with 1667 points and 1 day old (24-48 hours) has score between 4.5 and 1.5. Currently the last item in the front page has 242 points, 11 hours ago, so it would have 2.5 points.

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Re:Ask HN: Stallman resignation story disappeared from front... by ecmascript on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @07:46AM (#21004269)

I think you are correct in this case. I found the link on page 4, I just searched badly before but in my defense HN can be pretty hard to read sometimes.

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Re:Ask HN: Stallman resignation story disappeared from front... by thrower123 on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @04:06AM (#21003251)

All of these threads rapidly go into dumpster fire territory, so I imagine they get bounced out pretty quickly by the automated flamewar detectors, if not the various classes of flags.

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Re:Ask HN: Stallman resignation story disappeared from front... by ecmascript on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @05:16AM (#21003530)

I'm not saying it is not the correct thing to do, just that it seems like it's happening. But just stating this makes people downvote which is very confusing to me.

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