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Re:How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controvers... by cloudflare on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @09:16AM (#6801319)
It would be interesting to know if there are 'flagging rings' in the same way there are 'voting rings' and whether HN actively detects the former as it does the latter.
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Re:How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controvers... by mcintyre1994 on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @01:57PM (#6810257)
For what it's worth, there are a lot of stories around of people losing flag rights after flagging too often.
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