[kristianp]

It shouldn't be on page 2 if it's only 2 hours old. I believe this means people are flagging the story.

[dang]

Yes, people are flagging the story, plus it set off the flamewar detector, plus we also downweighted it for a while.

It's clear that this is one of those "will be reposted no matter what" cases, so I've turned off the flags and the flamewar detector and reduced the downweight.

[gnabgib]

It's a contentious discussion (look at all the dead comments at the bottom), which it's bound to be. Pretty sure that leads to down-ranking.

[bezier-curve]

I hate to break the hacker news guidelines but this does feel like hacker news is a lot like Reddit.

[BenjiWiebe]

Reddit has auto-downranking of contentious discussions!?

Anyways, if you are concerned you can email dang ([e-mail] iirc) and he can fix it. I've had really good luck contacting him about stuff like that.

[zarathustreal]

Interesting.. wouldn’t that lead to an echo chamber?