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>>Robin8+(OP)
> The assumption is that a Story cannot go from the top 30 to a position higher than 90 in a single minute, without having been explicitly removed.

That's wrong. Both the flamewar detector (a.k.a. the overheated discussion detector) and user flags do that, and there are other software mechanisms that do it too. For example, if a story has been on the front page for more than (IIRC) 18 hours, it gets an automatic downweight unless we manually override it.

Also, keep in mind that user flags affect a submission's rank long before the [flagged] marker appears.

>>dang+wg
> keep in mind that user flags affect a submission's rank long before the [flagged] marker appears

What kinds of user flags are there and why are they not public? People should know. Shadowbanning belongs in the 2010s.