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You can see that this story should be #8 on the front page but it was artificially deranked.

I think I understand. It looks like there's a difference between the raw ranks and the actual rank because of some additional algorithm that sits on top of the "raw" algorithm? It sounds like there's additional filtering happening looking at the comments, etc to try to keep people from engaging in internet fights. Is that what you mean when you call the down ranking artificial?

In addition to the flamewar penalty algo, there’s also the second-chance queue algo, and the unlikelihood that all non-staff users have precisely equal vote and flag effect, and that commenting provides a signal at all. I could probably come up with more but best to draw the line at two minutes of thinking about it :)

That assumed "should be" is bogus. By what standard?

Ironically though, the merged thread on this topic happens to be at exactly #8 on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50101813. It has been on the frontpage for 10 hours and will probably be there for quite a while longer.

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