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If I recall earlier discussions about the decay of posts, age of the post + age of last upvote is modified by the number of total votes. As new posts get upvot
by cd34 16y ago
If I recall earlier discussions about the decay of posts, age of the post + age of last upvote is modified by the number of total votes.
As new posts get upvotes, their ranked score is enough to push older posts below. It is lunchtime in California, mid afternoon in the Eastern USA... it is entirely likely people are upvoting newer content.
- taylorbuley 16y agoA good way to help old content "decay" is to multiply the votes/relevance by the current timestamp (which is always greater than previous timestamps). If you, say, round to the nearest hour -- then there would be an inflection point come the next hour when a 59 minute turns into a 60 minute old post and gets its point total multiplied by a smaller bin than posts coming in during the current hour.