No real users. It's a simplified simulation of a frontpage and how random users interact with it. Have a look at the code: https://github.com/fdietze/downvote-s

No real users. It's a simplified simulation of a frontpage and how random users interact with it. Have a look at the code: https://github.com/fdietze/downvote-scoring/blob/master/scoring-simulation.scala#L104 https://github.com/fdietze/downvote-scoring/blob/master/scor... I started to write another simulation with the goal to be more realistic, i.e. backed by real statistics from HN, like "how many votes arrive on each rank of the frontpage", or "what is the distribution of submission arrival".