Re:ASK PG: Why HN killed a reasonable complain about YC company
by minimaxir on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @12:35PM
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Penalities mean that the link requires significantly more upvotes than usual to hit the front page, and if it does hit the front page, it won't stay there for long.
A good description of the math behind penalties (and a list of some penalized domains) is here: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...