HACKER Q&A
📣 rfarley04

Why Crowdstrike posts no rank more better


Honest question. I've never wondered too much about ranking on the front page. Not mad, just curious. There have been multiple posts about today's outage with hundreds more votes than posts ranking above them.

  👤 talldayo Accepted Answer ✓
Isn't it currently the #1 thread on the frontpage? I don't see why we need more posts than that.
👤 r721
Some users are flagging them as duplicates apparently, and that negatively affects ranking:

>Although submissions cannot be downvoted, flags act as a "super" downvote and enough flags will strongly reduce the rank of the submission, or kill it entirely (flagging is supposed to be used for submissions which break the site guidelines, but that isn't always the case in practice).

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re...