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

Re:How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controvers... by ssclafani on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @02:55AM (#6807024)

Votes made from an article's direct link (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799854) don't count towards its rank and too many of them will set of the voting ring detector (this is why it's a bad idea to link directly to a HN submission from your blog or from Twitter/Facebook). This is probably what happened here.

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Re:How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controvers... by Zaephyr on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @12:10PM (#6809423)

Wait...what? I am not suppose to upvote from the article page but the main pages? I know I'm new here, but I find that counter-intuitive and disappointing that I've been doing wrong.

Wouldn't it make sense to remove the upvote option on the article page, surely I'm not the only one who got this wrong (I hope).

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Re:How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controvers... by kilovoltaire on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @01:01PM (#6809849)

I think it's based on referrer, not where you actually do the upvote.

I.e. if you get to the article page from the main page, then that's fine. But if you arrive there with no referrer or from somewhere else, then it isn't counted, since quite possibly someone sent you the specific article just to upvote it.

At least that's how I understand it...

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