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Re:East Coast Internet Outage by dang on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @05:15PM (#25921688)
It set off the flamewar detector. We monitor that list and eventually cancel the penalty for threads that aren't actual flamewars, but it takes a while. If anyone wants to make it faster, emailing [email protected] is usually a forcing function.

Edit: Also, posts without URLs get a downweight by default. I've turned that off too, and merged the other threads into this one, since it was the first one.

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Re:East Coast Internet Outage by Ansil849 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:47PM (#25924002)
> It set off the flamewar detector.

Why? There do not appear to have been any posts remotely resembling a flamewar in the comments.

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Re:East Coast Internet Outage by dang on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @03:03AM (#25925515)
That's answered in my sibling (well, cousin) comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25921757. It can't test for flamewars directly so it ends up guessing wrong sometimes.
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Re:East Coast Internet Outage by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @05:21PM (#25921740)
How does one programmatically detect a flamewar? :)
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Re:East Coast Internet Outage by dang on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @05:23PM (#25921757)
By proxy, which is why there are false positives.
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Re:East Coast Internet Outage by unoti on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @06:18PM (#25922198)
> How does one programmatically detect a flamewar? :)

An NLP/Machine learning model would be a great way! Probably also taking in other features as input such as the number of comments per second, and how deeply nested those comments are.

Let's build one!

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