Evan Miller did some very interesting analysis of the historical Reddit hot formula. It doesn't address cheating, but it does identify the details of the algori

Evan Miller did some very interesting analysis of the historical Reddit hot formula. It doesn't address cheating, but it does identify the details of the algorithm and some inherent faults. http://www.evanmiller.org/deriving-the-reddit-formula.html http://www.evanmiller.org/deriving-the-reddit-formula.html There is also the followup about ranking news items with upvotes: http://www.evanmiller.org/ranking-news-items-with-upvotes.html http://www.evanmiller.org/ranking-news-items-with-upvotes.ht...