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How does this become top post with only 79 points and 21 comments posted 1 hour ago?
by transfire 10y ago
How does this become top post with only 79 points and 21 comments posted 1 hour ago?
- kens 10y agoTo simplify, lots of votes in a short time gets the article to the top, unless penalties kick in. If you're interested in the HN scoring algorithm, I wrote about it in 2013: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really... Some changes have been made to the algorithm since then, but it's still roughly accurate.
- sp332 10y agoThat's more than 1 upvote per minute, pretty high. The 2nd story has 55 votes in >1 hour.
- lelandbatey 10y agoRealistically: for a while, this company has been engendering a lot of ill will, enough that many people recognize it by name, and many of those same people will quickly upvote any bad news about it.