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The submission could also be counted as an automatic upvote, achieving the same effect, while still allowing tightening of the duplication detection algorithm.
by Confusion 17y ago
The submission could also be counted as an automatic upvote, achieving the same effect, while still allowing tightening of the duplication detection algorithm. One article with two votes is better than two articles with one vote. For low numbers of votes, I guess it shouldn't matter the first few votes are old.
- ars 17y ago"The submission could also be counted as an automatic upvote" It does already. If submit a url that is already there, it gives it an automatic upvote.
- Sukotto 17y agoThat's only worthwhile if you also reset the time decay. upvoting something old has virtually no impact on its chance of moving to the front page
- j_baker 17y agoNote that the algorithm is weighted against time as well. If I upvote something that was posted a month ago, it is practically useless.