[recoiledsnake]

Thanks for the post, but have to disgree on some points. the differences aren't small, they're quite big when you realize that ranking makes a huge difference to how many people see it and how many more new votes it gets, especially if it goes off the front page.

Adding more data for perusal. HN rankings charts show abnormal behavior too, because all the complaining led to more upvotes or it would've fallen off the front page.

http://hnrankings.info/5715168/

http://hnrankings.info/5715889/

Will post more screenshots of downranked submissions tomorrow, maybe we can figure out exactly what's happening.