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speculation: could be the ratio of how many people upvote vs how many view the link?
by netcraft 11y ago
speculation: could be the ratio of how many people upvote vs how many view the link?
- 542458 11y agoThats an interesting theory, but unless everybody votes way more often than me those numbers seem really high.
- netcraft 11y agoagreed, they are relatively high for that.
- guiomie 11y agois there an xhr attached to opening of the link in a new tab?
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- geofft 11y agoDoes HN even track how many people view the link? As far as I can tell, there's no JS on the home page other than the not-even-AJAX powering the upvote and downvote buttons, and they're not using <a ping>, so I'm not sure how that information would get back to the servers.
- gradys 11y agoYou could simulate it by recording its position on the front page for each impression. Assume that higher positions on the page are seen more. Then your metric is something like upvotes per position-discounted impression. On the other hand, I'm not sure that dang would get much value out of this kind of metric unless he was trying to tune the ranking algorithm or something like that.