SpaceX CRS-3 Mission

>>ColinW+(OP)
Is this submission being flagged by users, or has it tripped some sort of scoring penalty?

Dropping suddenly from 3rd to 20th on the front page suggests some sort of penalty being applied, but is it community driven, or automated? Even with the new openness about the actions of the moderators on HN I still find some things deeply confusing.

Added in edit: This does bring home just how important upvotes are. I've seen how disproportional the effect is of downvotes on an item's ranking - one downvotes out-weights many upvotes. If you like something, upvote it, or see it sink without trace.

>>ColinW+U7
I put a moderate moderator flag on it so that it would be lower, but still on the front page. My reasoning: Space X is cool and interesting, but it isn't a major story every time they do a launch.

Edit: We took the penalty off several hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7611240

>>dang+Al
It's not a major story every time they do a launch, but this one was definitely a major story, being the first test of their landing legs during a real launch.

Punishing worthy, interesting stories because there are too many other stories about the company seems really wrong.

>>mikeas+ir
Since you posted this well after we removed the penalty from the story, I'm thinking you must not have seen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7611240.

The only issue is that it's not always obvious which stories are the worthy, interesting ones.

>>dang+oy
If it's not obvious, doesn't that mean further research is in order before flagging it?

>>mikeas+6H
That's not always possible, nor does "further research" always yield the right answer. Perfection isn't going to happen. Correcting mistakes? That we can do.

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