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How does something like this wind up on the front page? As of this comment, it was posted 48 minutes ago with 12 points , one other comment, and sits at number
by alpha_squared 6y ago
How does something like this wind up on the front page? As of this comment, it was posted 48 minutes ago with 12 points , one other comment, and sits at number 5. It's a self-professed clickbait title, though the content is interesting.
- Waterluvian 6y agoThe ranking algorithm put it here.
- dylan604 6y agothe Zuck strikes again
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- gbh444g 6y agoI think each word in the title has a weight. Higher weight -> higher rank. If they found a way to insert "bitcoin" and "climate change" into the title, it would be number 1.
- bawolff 6y agoWhy not? You yourself just said "though the content is interesting." and the title might be a little clickbaity, but its not that bad. I've seen much worse reach the frontpage.
- gus_massa 6y agoThe post are sorted approximately by points / (time_in_hours+1)^1.5 * lot_of_penalties where 1.5 is a number that may change from time to time without warning, perhaps now it's 1.6 or something like that. The number of comments does not matter, unless the post has too much more comment than points, and the site adds a penalty. There are a lot of automatic and manual penalties added by the mods, and also added by the flags of the users. Most of the details are part of the secret sauce and change from time to time without warning.