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Since HN doesn't show vote totals I wanted to chime in and say this would be really useful to me as well.
by icey 15y ago
Since HN doesn't show vote totals I wanted to chime in and say this would be really useful to me as well.
- viggity 15y agoHN doesn't show vote totals, but it does sort posts based on the number of votes (descending), so the more popular posts rise to the top, just like the front page.
- scotth 15y agoThat isn't how the frontpage works, and if it did, we would rarely have news turnover.
- RyanMcGreal 15y agoWell, yes and no. Upvotes push submissions toward the top of the page, but the ranking algorithm also includes a decay factor so that old articles eventually fall away.
- tibbe 15y agoHN most likely uses a combination of votes and time in scoring, similar to the reddit ranking algorithm: http://amix.dk/blog/post/19588 http://amix.dk/blog/post/19588