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krapp on Oct 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hacker News metrics (first rough approach)

I believe a thread with more comments than votes is penalized as well, suggesting that commenting on a thread without upvoting it first is implicitly flagging it.

And of course there may be other arcane metrics involving thread depth, average comment rate, comment size, thread shape, etc. Who knows?

Chinjut on Oct 30, 2014 [–]

Whoa, really?

...I've been flagging a lot of articles.

AndrewDucker on Oct 30, 2014 | [–]

Only a factor if it's got more comments than upvotes.

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