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Some of the hidden norms about Hacker News not otherwise covered in the Guidelines and the FAQ.
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Moderators may assign automatic downweighing to users and post-specific downweighing #64

Open andrewmcwatters opened 2 years ago

andrewmcwatters commented 2 years ago

When a HN moderator applies automatic downweighing to a user, their posts will end up at the bottom of a thread, regardless of the number of upvotes applied to it.

The same downweighing mechanism may be applied to specific posts.

I have confirmed the first statement with Daniel.