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Meta: How does this reach front page with 4 points?
by hellbanner 10y ago
Meta: How does this reach front page with 4 points?
- nsns 10y agoYou could call it the "Sunday effect".
- kristofferR 10y agoWhy wouldn't you just call it the Saturday effect?
- gtirloni 10y agoThis happens routinely on weekdays too. Number of points is not indicative of something appearing on the frontpage. I don't know what is though, which makes me suspicious of hidden agendas.
- tosseraccount 10y agoI wouldn't call it "hidden".
- awqrre 10y agoThe admins here do promote stories to the front page when they want it to get more views.
- hellbanner 10y agoViews are calculated into front-paging? I thought I read somewhere that successful front-pagers have an increased weight to their posts being frontpaged. And "rate of upvotes" matters a lot. So maybe these 3 upvotes were given within a second of each other.. ?
- daveguy 10y agoIt probably has to do with the speed of upvotes or percentage of upvotes per viewer. It pretty rapidly has gone to +17. There does seem to be some kind of "upvote recency" component to the algorithm. Older upvotes stories drift down and newer quickly upvoted stories drift up. I doubt there is a conspiracy (except for those employment posts that can't be replied to).
- codezero 10y agodang has noted they randomly push some stories into the bottom of the front page to give them a shot.
- hellbanner 10y agooh thank you! didn't know about this.