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Who gatekeeps the front page? How does inane crap like this get up here, with only 11 upvotes?
by angel_j 7y ago
Who gatekeeps the front page? How does inane crap like this get up here, with only 11 upvotes?
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- gus_massa 7y agoThe order in the front page is essentially points/age^2. (The exact details are elsewhere [1].) This post has less than an hour, so the priority is 11/1^2=11 The third post is currently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19778023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19778023 that has 98 points in 3 hour, so the priority is 98/3^3=10.9 So ... probably just a weird order when the story is too young, let it age and drop. [1] The exact formula is something like (poins-1)/(age+1)^1.6 or something like that. points/age^2 is a not very bad approximation, but it's much easier to calculate by hand. There are also flags and penalties applied automatically, by the mods and by the users. (The exact details are elsewhere.)