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It may seem obvious with the benefit of hindsight, but I would have guessed that the better answers might be different in terms of word choice or style.
by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
It may seem obvious with the benefit of hindsight, but I would have guessed that the better answers might be different in terms of word choice or style.
- AlexCoventry 7y agoI'm not saying it was a silly thing to try, just that it's wrong to conclude from the result that the scores are random. I.e., I was mostly responding to "It’s so crazy to me that which posts get popular might just be random."
- yeldarb 7y agoI’m not convinced they are randomly distributed but before I started playing with it I was fairly certain they weren’t. Now all I know is I haven’t seen evidence that they aren’t. I could see how there could be some element of luck in whether a post gets attention before getting buried. It depends who’s online when it’s posted and whether it piques their interest, and many other random factors that don’t have anything to do with the content of the post like how quickly other posts come in afterwards to bury yours, and how any automated algorithms decide to surface it.