State Department: The U.S. does not recognize the concept of ‘diplomatic asylum’

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/08/17/state_department_the_us_does_not_recognize_the_concept_of_diplomatic_asylum

by pitiburi • 14 years ago

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pitiburi4• 14 years ago

Wow... I really don't get the algorithm.... I posted the story, it was on the "new" page... it started to get votes, it went into the first page, it was 20th, then 16th, then 14th, and then... suddenly at minute 24, it went right into position... 658th??? Really??? What is going on???

pitiburi4• 14 years ago

Btw, it had 7 votes when it was ostracized. At the top 100 there are many stories with fewer votes and way older. Can someone explain it to me? I really don't get it.

uncoder0• 14 years ago

If someone flagged it that would explain that behavior. Flagging counts as a large number of downvotes in ranking algorithm.

mhlakhani• 14 years ago

Someone probably flagged the story. That can make it jump down really fast.

jerrya• 14 years ago

How do you determine what position a story is in?

I will say the mysteriousness of the front page algorithm, the seeming difficulty in getting an interesting story up there, adds to the concerns discussed yesterday about HN being a not so friendly place anymore.

Especially if mystery flags without explanation can sink a story to negative infinity.

In addition, of all the HN stories that showed up in Google Reader this morning, this was the one that seemed most interesting and that I had not seen anywhere else.

State Department: The U.S. does not recognize the concept of ‘diplomatic asylum’

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