Show HN: Most Penalized HN Stories (news.social-protocols.org)

1 points by jwarden 1d ago ↗ HN

This page shows which stories have the heaviest penalty applied to their Hacker News rank -- stories that rank lower than they should given their raw HN ranking formula.

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yodon 1d ago ↗

So, maybe it's a huge conspiracy, or maybe it's a case of a person who attempted to reverse engineer the algorithm missing a couple terms in the equation.

Founderarcstone 1d ago ↗

maybe that is true but the ban stick on certain posts can hit fast LOL.

dgellow 22h ago ↗

Looks like the anti flamewar algorithm is working well. Also, are you sure that flags aren’t contributing?