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What is the "comment_ranking" data you mention in the notebook?

• fhoffa 11y ago
  Hacker News chose to hide comment scores some time ago, but I still wanted to find a way to rank comments. The good news is that the API gives you a "kids" column that ranks comments in the order they should be displayed - that's how I can find what's the top comment for each post (as shown in the linked notebook).
  • brudgers 11y ago
    Is that column independent of "gravity"?
    • fhoffa 11y ago
      I guess it incorporates gravity - it's whichever way Hacker News tells its clients to rank the comments by.