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OT: Can someone explain why 3 votes made this the 3rd post on the frontpage?
by bauerd 9y ago
OT: Can someone explain why 3 votes made this the 3rd post on the frontpage?
- CamelCoder 9y agoSlow weekend I guess.
- virtuabhi 9y agoOT: What does OT stands for?
- calcifer 9y agoOff topic.
- calcifer 9y agoOT but I really don't understand these types of questions. The possible answers range from "because the ranking works that way" to "someone with privileges wanted it that way". On either end of the spectrum, the real question remains: so what? What difference does it make why a particular post is in a particular position? If the title seems interesting, you click on it. If not, you move on. I don't mean to question you in particular. It just seems like such a trivial concern to me that I truly can't understand why someone might possibly care.
- bauerd 9y agoI don't think there's the one real question. Of course you can always ask "So what?"
- scientistem 9y agoI mean “so what” is almost always “so i can understand better”. Granted not always for the most productive ends....
- kissickas 9y agoI don't have the authoritative answer or anything but just based on observation, I've noticed that there are (almost?) always one or two new articles with low vote counts on the front page. I assume it's so we don't need so many "knights of new" to make ensure that the content on the front page matches what the masses want to see.
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- TekMol 9y agoWhat's even stranger is that your post is always auto-closed. No matter if I open it, log in, log out .. whatever. Whenever I reload this page, your post is auto-closed.
- evanlivingston 9y agoClosed for me too
- mirimir 9y agoYes, that is strange. To quote calcifer: > "someone with privileges wanted it that way" And it is off-topic.
- dang 9y agoI default-collapsed it because it's so offtopic. I guess that has a catnip effect when a thread is at #1. But consider how irrelevant all these comments are.
- weirdstuff 9y agoAnd why are some posts, like yours, collapsed by default? And some accounts have default auto-dead comments. It's not transparent how this all works. Edit: looks like another commenter mentioned this too. Sorry for the dupe.