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Out of curiosity how often do you tweak the time decay of a given post? Also do some posts have different time decays based on the content (eg. Who's Hiring? vs
by detroitcoder 11y ago
Out of curiosity how often do you tweak the time decay of a given post? Also do some posts have different time decays based on the content (eg. Who's Hiring? vs YC job post vs standard post)?
- dang 11y agoIt's nothing fancy. We just alter an internal timestamp. Yes: job ads have their own time decay algorithm that starts them out at #6 or so and steadily lowers them over about 3 hours. There are other switches that cause some posts (e.g. stories without URLs) to decline faster, but I think they all work on other variables than time.