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Flagging has impacts other than the binary "flagged" state.



This does not explain an instant move of a submission made 1 hour ago from top 10 to 3rd page, where there are submissions made 1 DAY ago.


That depends on how many users flagged the post.


Yes, and within how short of a time span all those flags came in!

A post that's regularly being flagged by 0.0X% of logged-in users will have different behavior than one that gets fairly few flags for many hours and then suddenly gets 30 within a five minute period.




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