> Look for high vote-to-comment ratios. This is a pretty good metric for finding high quality threads (isn’t a low ratio something the HN algorithm uses in wei

> Look for high vote-to-comment ratios. This is a pretty good metric for finding high quality threads (isn’t a low ratio something the HN algorithm uses in weighting front page rank?). The only problem is that sometimes a great comment will, understandably, generate a lot of responses. I wish there were a variant of the /bestcomments endpoint [0] that surfaced highly-voted comments within the last 12 hours. Not that days-old threads aren’t worthwhile to read, it’s just that they no longer have active participation. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments