[jarek]

Another submission for the flagged files.

As of 17:51 GMT, this submission is 3 hours old and has 374 points, 68 comments, sitting in position 11 on the HN front page

In position 10 is a submission from 8 hours ago with 100 points and 76 comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10505476)

In position 1 is a submission from 4 hours ago with 177 points and 91 comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10506338)

edit: This isn't to pass judgment on the merits of the article, which seems a bit conveniently timed to a product launch linked at the bottom. But as a community we should realize what gets flagged/pushed down and by how much.

update: at 18:51 GMT, this is 4 hours old, has 490 points, 97 comments, and is in position 26. In position 25 is a 5 hour old submission with 57 points and 15 comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10506372)

final update: at 19:24 GMT, this is off the front page at position 33. Age 5 hours, 536 points, 112 comments. In position 18 is a story from 10 hours ago, 362 points, 192 comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10505362); the 10506372 story referenced previously is now in position 31, 62 points, 16 comments, 5 hours ago.

[dcposch]

Protip: https://news.ycombinator.com/best

[Mz]

Perhaps it was flagged by members of the user base? I swear like a sailor, but I try to keep it down to a dull roar online. Yet, I found the amount and kind of swearing in the article off-putting. And while I agree with the general premise wrt encouraging people to consider shooting for small and mid-sized businesses, I don't really agree with or much like his approach to arguing for that.

Perhaps others feel more strongly than I do that this isn't really a solid article.

[jarek]

Definitely possible, though the ratio of upvotes vs flags is interesting nevertheless - opinions must be extremely polarized for that to be the case.

[AlexMuir]

That flagging is a joke. This was an excellent read, a relevant article and by a respected person. I missed the story until today because it dropped so quick off the homepage.

[tcpekin]

Very odd. I found that I have the best success browsing HN when starting from the active page. The things people usually complain about being flagged are usually very high with the active ranking system.

https://news.ycombinator.com/active

[natural219]

Is there seriously a list of HN flagged items somewhere? I fantasize about this often when I try to explain to friends how much quality content gets booted off of HN immediately these days. It's super heartbreaking and infuriating when they don't know what I'm talking about.

[jarek]

Not that I'm aware of. I made that joke since it's the second submission in a week I saw sunk far below its expected score (the Homejoy debacle was the other, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10469134)

[natural219]

This happens very often. It's not until you start noticing it that you start noticing it.

[c23gooey]

try using http://www.hckrnews.com/

[lorenzhs]

I find hnrankings.info very useful. See, for example, http://hnrankings.info/10506422,10514729/

[jarek]

That's pretty good - thanks. Do you know if there is a way to also have this show score/number of upvotes or number of comments for a story, in addition to the rank?

[lorenzhs]

Sorry, no idea. The json loaded by the site consists only of [timestamp, position] pairs, maybe the author isn't even collecting score data.