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Despite having a vote increment velocity far exceeding other items, a publish time of only 25 minutes ago, and more points, this item just dropped from #5 to #7
by nixgeek 8y ago
Despite having a vote increment velocity far exceeding other items, a publish time of only 25 minutes ago, and more points, this item just dropped from #5 to #7 on the front page.
How’s that work exactly?
Edit: It’s now droppped to #14 even with comment count also rapidly increasing.
- maxerickson 8y agoComment count is a factor. edit: it's a negative factor...
- nixgeek 8y agoThanks for the clarity, this makes more sense now!
- rattray 8y agoHmm, it's now off the front page entirely, which seems strange. I don't see much incendiary commenting or similar... @dang, care to comment?
- _wmd 8y ago300 comments in one hour will definitely kill it. HN penalizes controversy, which it uses comment count as a proxy for. It works well most of the time
- calcifer 8y agoQuoting myself from 8 months ago [1]: > 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. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15576036 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15576036