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Ask HN: More weird rankings on HN ...
This item:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2237111
Two comments, each with 1 point, but the older comment is getting ranked higher.
I think I've noticed other cases where longer comments get ranked higher, but this isn't an example of that.
Any suggestions as to the logic behind this?
Thanks.
- joh6nn 16y agofollowing occam's razor, my guess would be that absent any other data to weight them by, chronology wins out.
- pitdesi 16y agoMaybe one is by the original poster, so it's ranked higher. That logic would make sense - not sure how it's applied here though... would anyone who knows care to tell us?? Linked for your clicking pleasure: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2237111 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2237111
- bartonfink 16y agoI haven't looked at the source for this website, but I would assume that one of the factors that gets used in display ordering is user average karma. A user with higher average karma is, by some mathematical analyses, more likely to produce an interesting post than one with lower. You guys have nearly identical total karma, but the top user has an average post score of 6.48 - yours is only 2.53. That's my guess, but like I said, I haven't checked out the source.
- cperciva 16y agoComments are ordered in part based on the author's average comment score: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1398764 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1398764
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoAh, that would do it. Many thanks.