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The rank of the post got affected by the flamewar detector, not because of voting abnormality.

Please don't break the HN guidelines by insinuating this kind of thing without evidence—they're quite explicit about that (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), for good reason because most such insinuations are just pure perception. The internet is a bit Rohrshcach diagram that way.

If you're worried about vote manipulation, that doesn't mean you should do nothing! But what you should do is email [e-mail] so we can investigate. We always do.