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The decay rate for front page items has always felt off to me. Quite often you'll see articles with 20-30 points and no comments camp in the middle of the front
by thrower123 7y ago
The decay rate for front page items has always felt off to me. Quite often you'll see articles with 20-30 points and no comments camp in the middle of the front page all day, while more actively discussed items drop off.
- krapp 7y agoItems with active discussions are often implicitly penalized, because the number of comments are often greater than the number of upvotes, which is interpreted as a sign of low quality discussion or possible flamewar.
- angry_octet 7y agoPost time of day is influential for most social media. This possibly depends on if a topic is more US or Europe relevant. Different sources of the same breaking news seem to have widely divergent scores, well before the content is read.
- dang 7y agoComments don't affect story rank, with the exception of the flamewar detector mentioned in the sibling comment by krapp. It's not uncommon for certain kinds of story to get plenty of upvotes but no comments. Those stay on the front page for a while. I think that's fine; something can be interesting even though we don't have anything to say about it.