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Read Maciej's http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm BTW: What causes this 11 points + 4 comments thing
by wkoszek 10y ago
Read Maciej's http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
BTW: What causes this 11 points + 4 comments thing to hit the front-page of HN? Just wondering, as I believed it's the number of comments + popularity that pushes the link to the front.
- nashashmi 10y agoAlso the rate at which it accumulates points. For example, if a submission was submitted an hour ago, and in the last 5 minutes it got 4 more points, it will probably hit the front page.
- moron4hire 10y agoAge is also a factor, optimizing for younger submissions.
- throwawaydbfif 10y agoI think the reputation of who clicked it also matters even though it isn't publicly said. If a few people with a lot of upvoted got to it, it could hit the front page fast
- jessaustin 10y agoIn the past comments actually counted against submissions, in order to avoid flame wars. It seemed actually impossible for a submission with more comments than points to hit the front page, no matter how many points it had. Conspiracy theorists claimed this was a common way to bury a submission. This has been relaxed somewhat, but I still wouldn't expect comments to help a submission.
- amk_ 10y agohttps://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc#L262-L278 https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc#L26...
- wkoszek 10y agoO, that's nice. I didn't know the whole HN is open-source.
- icebraining 10y agoEverything except the mechanisms to detect voting rings and such.
- grzm 10y agoActually, I think the code that's on github is quite old. This repo hasn't been updated in 2 years, and I know they've made changes to functionality beyond just the admin/detection features you describe above. I don't know how much different the code is now, but I'm pretty sure what's publicly available is not up to date.