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At the moment, this post has 4 upvotes and yet it is in the #7 place on the front page of Hacker News. How is that possible? 4 upvotes gets a post that high on

At the moment, this post has 4 upvotes and yet it is in the #7 place on the front page of Hacker News. How is that possible? 4 upvotes gets a post that high on the front page?

tashoecraft 10y ago
submitters karma is 25637, that probably has something to do with it.
- deleted 10y ago
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- 0x0 10y ago
  Quite impressive karma count for only having 10 comments. A zillion story submissions of which almost all are from nautil.us though. What's going on here?
  - resonantjacket5 10y ago
    It's not as nefarious at it seems. The guy/girl just submits three or four stories a day from nautil.us / new york times/ phys.org mostly. And over time just built up some points. Probably just shot up because of 4 upvotes at the same time.
    - buro9 10y ago
      Probably written a bot to submit all stories from a few top sites. As others submit the same stories, the first poster has their story upvoted. Result is that this user is credited nearly all of the upvotes from a few core sites that have content of interest to the HN audience.
  - deleted 10y ago
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  - FLUX-YOU 10y ago
    Accounts with good reputation used specifically for posting links are not uncommon on any popular forum.
sxg 10y ago
It's Saturday afternoon in the US. Not exactly the busiest time for news. I don't know how Hacker News' ranking algorithm works, but I'd imagine it's possible to incorporate information like number of clicks in addition to upvotes and comments.
- nitrogen 10y ago
  There's probably an age-of-post component as well so new content has a chance to be seen.
  - gus_massa 10y ago
    The main part of the order is base approximately in: votes/age^2 Some of the details are part of the secret sauce, but kens did a blackbox analysis to try to guess more details. It's an old post, so many details may have changed since it was published, but I guess the main ideas remain. http://www.righto.com/2009/06/how-does-newsyc-ranking-work.html http://www.righto.com/2009/06/how-does-newsyc-ranking-work.h... http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
imh 10y ago
If it's like the comment algo, it seems to take time into account. Brand new stuff has a short boost.

At the moment, this post has 4 upvotes and yet it is in the #7 place on the front page of Hacker News. How is that possible? 4 upvotes gets a post that high on the front page?

tashoecraft 10y ago

submitters karma is 25637, that probably has something to do with it.

deleted 10y ago
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0x0 10y ago
Quite impressive karma count for only having 10 comments. A zillion story submissions of which almost all are from nautil.us though. What's going on here?
- resonantjacket5 10y ago
  It's not as nefarious at it seems. The guy/girl just submits three or four stories a day from nautil.us / new york times/ phys.org mostly. And over time just built up some points. Probably just shot up because of 4 upvotes at the same time.
  - buro9 10y ago
    Probably written a bot to submit all stories from a few top sites. As others submit the same stories, the first poster has their story upvoted. Result is that this user is credited nearly all of the upvotes from a few core sites that have content of interest to the HN audience.
- deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]
- FLUX-YOU 10y ago
  Accounts with good reputation used specifically for posting links are not uncommon on any popular forum.

sxg 10y ago

It's Saturday afternoon in the US. Not exactly the busiest time for news. I don't know how Hacker News' ranking algorithm works, but I'd imagine it's possible to incorporate information like number of clicks in addition to upvotes and comments.

nitrogen 10y ago
There's probably an age-of-post component as well so new content has a chance to be seen.
- gus_massa 10y ago
  The main part of the order is base approximately in: votes/age^2 Some of the details are part of the secret sauce, but kens did a blackbox analysis to try to guess more details. It's an old post, so many details may have changed since it was published, but I guess the main ideas remain. http://www.righto.com/2009/06/how-does-newsyc-ranking-work.html http://www.righto.com/2009/06/how-does-newsyc-ranking-work.h... http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...

imh 10y ago

If it's like the comment algo, it seems to take time into account. Brand new stuff has a short boost.