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Wait, so upvotes from readers are secondary to mod upvotes in some cases? Not that I immediately disagree, but it's an interesting feature.
by ComteDeLaFere 10y ago
Wait, so upvotes from readers are secondary to mod upvotes in some cases? Not that I immediately disagree, but it's an interesting feature.
- viraptor 10y agoI guess it's easier to verify. Otherwise, you'd get an instant bump on all reposts with all the votes the original accumulated.
- dang 10y agoI've posted extensively about how and why we do this. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and follow the links back from there. The purpose is to ensure that the HN front page sees more of the many high-quality stories that get posted here. In that respect the experiment has definitely been a success.