How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controversy, and penalties

Re:How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controvers... by Crito on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @02:57PM (#6803737)

PG has said in the past that there is a flamewar detector, and that it suppresses discussions. In the past, this has been triggered on certain Microsoft related articles, which has caused several people to claim that there is some sort of ring of HN users who strategically flag articles about Microsoft off the page (and depending on who you ask, they also vote up Google articles). Ironically, it seems that at least some of the people making these claims were sock-puppeting themselves.

PG's comment explaining it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6596311

In fact this article does consider the flamewar detector. How accurate it is in it's claims, I do not know.

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Re:How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controvers... by twelvechairs on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @03:09PM (#6803827)

so the outcome is 'flame people and the discussion you don't like will disappear'?

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Re:How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controvers... by pg on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @03:23PM (#6803933)

Except if you do that you risk being banned yourself.

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Re:How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controvers... by Uhhrrr on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @04:23PM (#6804317)

'Flame people with a throwaway and the discussion you don't like will disappear'?

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Re:How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controvers... by pg on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @04:29PM (#6804358)

That would be conspicuous and easy to prevent/ignore.

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Re:How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controvers... by chc on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @03:25PM (#6803944)

No, not really.

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