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Ask HN: Did my post get penalized?

Posted by ferrofluid on Monday February 06, 2012 @01:41PM
from the ask-hn dept.
My weekend project, jobpoacher, got a lot of upvotes, which was awesome, but it seems to have just dropped 20 spots in the rankings.

Was I penalized for some reason? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3557805

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Re:Ask HN: Did my post get penalized? by ferrofluid on Monday February 06, 2012 @01:46PM (#3558629)
It has a lot more upvotes than other posts above it, per hour, and it dropped something like 15 spots instantly.
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Re:Ask HN: Did my post get penalized? by polyfractal on Monday February 06, 2012 @01:58PM (#3558681)
It could be buggy too. The "Ask HN" section is chronically messed up, showing low-karma posts from days/weeks ago when there are active, high-karma posts being pushed a few pages under.

Or it could be some over-eager powerful flagger :)

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Re:Ask HN: Did my post get penalized? by bluemoon on Monday February 06, 2012 @01:48PM (#3558638)
Yeah it has 127 karma and it was just on the front page, I don't think flagging has that much weight
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Re:Ask HN: Did my post get penalized? by mrsebastian on Monday February 06, 2012 @01:52PM (#3558656)
Depends on who does the flagging, I think. Some flags are, like, an instant 10-spot demote. Some kick it from the 'news' section of the site completely (but still visible in 'newest').

I suspect there's a 'small flag', too, that doesn't drop the post's ranking unless enough small flags are accumulated.

It's all a bit blackboxy :)

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Re:Ask HN: Did my post get penalized? by polyfractal on Monday February 06, 2012 @01:45PM (#3558617)
Maybe someone flagged it, but probably not. Mondays are just highly-active times - posts rise and fall quickly.
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Re:Ask HN: Did my post get penalized? by heyrhett on Monday February 06, 2012 @01:59PM (#3558684)
Crazy, I don't even see this post in the ask section anymore.
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