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For those who aren't well versed in Arc or Lisp, could someone go through the differences?

• tel 16y ago
  Appears to be substantially identical to what's outlined in the post. The only changes are in the penalties dealt out by the type of story, inclusion of a url, buried status, gagged status, and the operation of penalties due to the contro(versial?)-factor function. If you're just submitting interesting URLs and worry about them being shunted off the main page by gravity then there are no practical differences.
  • pg 16y ago
    The gag tag doesn't mean "gagged." It means the post is a gag, in the sense of a joke. Sorry I can't be more transparent about how contro-factor is calculated, incidentally. Its purpose is to recognize flamewars.
    • davi 16y ago
      I'm curious about how you evaluate prospective algorithm changes. Do you roll out a change you think should work and then monitor, or do you have a corpus of e.g. flame wars you test against?
      • pg 16y ago
        There's a repl on the server, and I test tweaks on the live site.
        • techbio 16y ago
          Do you have a dashboard of some kind to visualize your tests effects? I am curious about the broad kind of insight one could have with such a programmatic access to this community. Perhaps I missed an essay about HN/REPL?