You cant downvote HN posts (comments you can)
They presumably meant that it’s been downranked relative to what you’d expect from a post with that many upvotes in that short of a time frame. Hundreds of upvotes in a few hours is usually a top 5 post
Afaik flagging acts like a super-downvote as far as the algorithm is concerned
Yes flagging is super downvote
They presumably meant that it’s been downranked relative to what you’d expect from a post with that many upvotes in that short of a time frame. Hundreds of upvotes in a few hours is usually a top 5 post
Afaik flagging acts like a super-downvote as far as the algorithm is concerned
Yes flagging is super downvote