Show HN: Most Penalized HN Stories

Posted by jwarden 6 hours ago

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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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Comment by yodon 3 hours 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.

Comment by Founderarcstone 2 hours ago

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