[p-e-w]

Great UI design; clean, intuitive, and useful. Thank you for this!

On a side note, I'd really like to know what broken mechanism aggressively downranks such quality community submissions. 67 upvotes in 2 hours, and only ranked 9th. Meanwhile, another post with fewer upvotes in more time is ranked 2nd. Something is very wrong here. I'd love to see more posts like this one, and fewer standard blog articles that are hitting the front page for the third time in five years.

[boldi]

There is an answer to your question [0]:

"The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in threads are ranked the same way.

Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which demotes overheated discussions, account or site weighting, and moderator action."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[stanislavb]

I'd bet you will never find the answer to this.

[owlninja]

Nothing is wrong here in my opinion

[system2]

What is right about it? He explained the faulty algorithm.