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		lovelearning on March 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stories that Hacker News removes from the front pa... Another possibility is that voting rings for _other_ posts flag maliciously to remove the competition and give their posts a relative boost. Maybe author can find correlations with other posts that were showing on the front page at the same time as the flagged ones and see how _their_ rankings got boosted due to the flagging.

chrisrhoden on March 13, 2017 [–]

The article is about posts that never receive the "flagged" designation.

DanBC on March 13, 2017 | [–]

A story is not marked as [flagged] as soon as someone flags it, and flags have influence even if the submission is not marked as [flagged].

See dang's comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13741276

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