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How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)

205 points · 110 comments · theanonymousone

PreciousH · 1789860987 · focus · HN ↗
weird that posts with lots of comments are also penalized though, the `controversy` reasoning is not solid enough for me.
1. NDlurker · 1789861781 · focus · HN ↗
  Check out this thread I made. It quickly moved to the top of the front page but then somehow moved down to like page 3, even though it had more upvotes and discussion than all or most of the other threads posted that day.
  <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171656">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171656

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