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		Ask HN: Am I flagged by HN moderator?
		2 points by hayeah on Sept 15, 2011 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments
		Fogscreek's post and mine are submitted at about the same time: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3001173 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3001182 I've gained 8 votes, and they have 5. They are 22 on the front page, I am 51 on the second page. My post was on the front page for about 30 minutes, until it suddenly disappeared. I am wondering if I've done anything wrong, and if next time I can avoid getting moderated (if I was indeed flagged). I believe I am trying to contribute to the community on good faith. So I would appreciate it if somebody can let me know if there are topics or rhetorics I should avoid.

tokenadult on Sept 15, 2011 | [–]

The source code for the ranking algorithm should be visible to anyone who can read news.arc source code. I haven't read the source code myself, but I get the impression that comments to threads matter for ranking as well as upvotes. Flags (which wouldn't be visible) also matter for ranking.

hayeah on Sept 15, 2011 | [–]

it also happened to my previous submission for getfaceoff.com.

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