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I said, there's a bunch of links (like job postings and YC company PR posts) that get privileged front page status with their own decay algorithms You are mist
by pg 15y ago
I said, there's a bunch of links (like job postings and YC company PR posts) that get privileged front page status with their own decay algorithms
You are mistaken. Only job postings have their own decay algorithm, and those are visually distinguished from stories by e.g. not having points or comments. All stories have the same decay rate.
- lukeholder 15y agoSometime I see articles very high up with no comments which made me think some non-job post were self promoted. but maybe thats a cache lag and the votes refresh quicker than comments?
- pg 15y agoIt's not due to caching. Some stories just get a lot more votes than comments. E.g. this currently has 87 points and 1 comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3353065 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3353065
- danssig 15y agoHas this always been the case? He seems to have a point with scribd, but then it could also be that there were just a lot less people voting over all back then.
- pg 15y agoYes. There has always been a single ranking algorithm for stories.