Re:Ask HN: What causes a top 10 front page post to jump to s...
by jqueryin on Thursday July 03, 2014 @07:22PM
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Define flagging. I've been a member of HN for almost 5 years with low to medium activity and all I get is upvote/downvote capabilities. As far as I can see, there were minimal downvotes from me watching (or at least equivalent to upvotes), so the flagging seemed to be a group effort near instantaneously.
Things immediately went from good to bad in the matter of seconds, so there's alot of power in whatever ranking is required to "flag".
Re:Ask HN: What causes a top 10 front page post to jump to s...
by dragonwriter on Thursday July 03, 2014 @08:08PM
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Comments can be downvoted, with sufficient karma (the down arrow next to the post does that.)
Stories cannot be downvoted (they have only an up arrow for upvotes). They can, however, be flagged (there is a "flag" link to do so between the time and the comment count.) Comments can also be flagged, as well as downvoted.
No moderator touched your post. It fell in rank because users flagged it.
It's against the HN guidelines to turn questions like this into Ask HN threads. Please don't do that. As the guidelines say, you should email [email protected] instead.
Also: when a post is flagged, a repost counts as a duplicate. Otherwise flags wouldn't mean anything.