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>I think ranking may also be improved depending on the rate of upvotes (besides just quantity), e.g., if a submission gets 4 up-votes in an hour it'll have a hi
by Jerry2 10y ago
>I think ranking may also be improved depending on the rate of upvotes (besides just quantity), e.g., if a submission gets 4 up-votes in an hour it'll have a higher rank that receiving 4 up-votes over 4 hours.
Sure, that's true but go to new submissions page and look at the posts that got 4 votes in 15 minutes. None of them are on the front page let alone in the top 10.
- grzm 10y agoI believe it also has to do with the context of activity of other submissions. Compare the activity of those submissions with the others on the top page. If you believe someone is pushing an agenda, please be explicit about what you mean. Who is it? What agenda are they pushing? Hand-waving vague accusations sound like vague conspiracies: it's "them"! The nefarious "they"! Edit to add: From what I've send there is one agenda that is being pushed: keep the community healthy. Try to keep flame wars, off-topic, and other non-constructive discussion to a minimum. If that happens to conflict with what you'd like to see on HN, then likely yes, there is something nefarious going on.
- Jerry2 10y agoI'm not saying it's nefarious but mods quite often push a story up on the front page with only few votes. I've witnessed it about a dozen times. And given that it happens, they definitely want some stories to be seen. By the definition, that is an agenda -- nefarious or not.
- grzm 10y agoWho is they? What is their agenda? Give me examples! Stacktrace or GTFO! :)