Someone once published a statistical analysis of the HN front page, where they were able to distill which domains are penalized. Medium.com was one of them. The post itself was quickly flagged and dropped from the front page, and I can't remember the link, sorry :/
I subscribe to Ken's blog and even sent the link to Daniel:
Wow. This was some seriously good research and nailed some of the penalty
numbers exactly. I mean, he did basically have the ranking formula and only
had to solve for the variables, but it's still much better than anything
else I've seen.
It fell prey to the ring detector before either Daniel or I saw it on HN.
