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You need 2 votes in the first 3-4 minutes or so. After that the number starts increasing. This is just pulling things out of thin air, but from the looks of it,
by vaksel 17y ago
You need 2 votes in the first 3-4 minutes or so. After that the number starts increasing. This is just pulling things out of thin air, but from the looks of it, the system increases the amounts every period.
i.e.
First 2 minutes? 1 upvote.
4 minutes: 2 upvotes
6 minutes: 3 upvotes
8 minutes: 4 upvotes
etc
- waterlesscloud 17y agoI don't think it works like that. From what I've observed, it depends far more on the state of the current front page stories. At night, when most of the stories are older, a single upvote on a New story an hour old can put it on the front page. In the daytime, you usually need that first upvote in 15 minutes or so. But it's not a set time or point scale, it's based on what's currently on the front page, how old those stories are, and how many points they have. The one thing I do agree with is that after a certain timeframe, I do wish even the most popular stories decayed more quickly.