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Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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1121 points alokedesai | 1 comments | 28 Oct 15 19:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.226s | source
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ghayes ◴[29 Oct 15 03:45 UTC] No.10469134[source]▶
Honest question, how is this #11 right now with 901 points? It's below a story with 199 points that was posted an hour before.
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jarek ◴[29 Oct 15 08:51 UTC] No.10469854[source]▶
It must have been heavily flagged. It's been lower than it should have been from the start. Admittedly the title of the submission isn't great so - if I'm being charitable - it's because users flagged based on title only.
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chris_wot ◴[29 Oct 15 10:37 UTC] No.10470090[source]▶
It's been on the front page for hours now.
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1. jarek ◴[29 Oct 15 10:50 UTC] No.10470128[source]▶
Yes. Right now this submission is 15 hours old, in position 25 with 1065 points and 313 comments. In position 24 is a submission from 15 hours ago with 131 points and 22 comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10466678). In position 19 is a submission from 14 hours ago with 153 points and 70 comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10467190). So it's not just because of exponential submission decay nor because of flamewar filtering.

Last evening GMT this submission was in fourth place when by points/comments/age it should have been first.

User flagging is the most charitable interpretation.

edit: now at position 54, 1078 points, 315 comments, 16 hours ago. At position 53 is a story from 17 hours ago, 69 points, 13 comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10466419)