Ask PG: Why did Politician Market Disappear from the homepage

Posted by pmarket on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @12:48PM
from the self-post dept.

A few minutes ago my Politician Market submission was the top item on HN. Now it's on page 2.

Is there a mistake in the ranking algorithm?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3504434

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Re:Ask PG: Why did Politician Market Disappear from the home... by jgrahamc on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @01:09PM (#3505870)

The most likely explanation is that it was getting flagged by people who didn't like it.

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Re:Ask PG: Why did Politician Market Disappear from the home... by pmarket on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @01:20PM (#3505932)

Wouldn't that kill the submission, not bury it?

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Re:Ask PG: Why did Politician Market Disappear from the home... by mooism2 on Wednesday January 25, 2012 @03:04AM (#3508823)

Killing takes more flags.

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Re:Ask PG: Why did Politician Market Disappear from the home... by bgentry on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @01:09PM (#3505869)

Probably too many people flagged it.

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Re:Ask PG: Why did Politician Market Disappear from the home... by llambda on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @01:11PM (#3505885)

You should probably email directly rather than post. At least that's been the recommendation in the past.

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Re:Ask PG: Why did Politician Market Disappear from the home... by mooism2 on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @01:19PM (#3505926)

I wouldn't be surprised if people were flagging it based on the tedious discussion in the comments, tbh.

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Re:Ask PG: Why did Politician Market Disappear from the home... by creativityland on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @01:13PM (#3505894)

Probably the government flagged it.

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Re:Ask PG: Why did Politician Market Disappear from the home... by jeKing on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @01:17PM (#3505917)

Maybe because it got flagged because this isn't anything really new

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