This is one giant bandaid on ranking algorithm. I post several stories and depending on day/time/other events either it would get 0 votes or 1000. Same story, s

This is one giant bandaid on ranking algorithm. I post several stories and depending on day/time/other events either it would get 0 votes or 1000. Same story, same content. This should make people who are in charge of this website do a lot of thinking... I think the issue is that every new story is randomly shown N times at the end of normal results and without initial votes story quickly gets ranked down. When N is too small, you might see random behavior. However they are probably not able to keep N too high because of limited slice of impressions it can be granted.