Show HN: Most Penalized HN Stories

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

19 points by jwarden 2 days ago | 5 comments

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.

dgellow 1 day ago |

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

jwarden 6 hours ago | |

Yes I should update the text on the page. Currently it says:

> This page shows stories whose rank on the Hacker News front page is significantly lower than their raw rank, indicating that they have been penalized by Hacker News moderators.

But flags, the anti-flamewar algorithm, and other automatic adjustments that aren't moderator actions may definitely be contributing.

yodon 1 day ago |

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

Everyone can apply their own form of Occam's Razor. Some will conclude conspiracy, others, missed second and third order terms.

jwarden 6 hours ago | |

Create of Quality New here. You are probably right here. The raw ranking formula is right, but I am lumping in the additional adjustments from the flamewar filter, etc. with "penalties." I will clarify that.

Founderarcstone 1 day ago | |

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