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Interesting idea. Yes that's probably true. One issue is that a story could appear on multiple pages (top, new, show, etc.), and we don't know where the upvote
by jwarden 4y ago
Interesting idea. Yes that's probably true. One issue is that a story could appear on multiple pages (top, new, show, etc.), and we don't know where the upvote came from. But I think we could deal with that issue and we might be able to use that as a datapoint to refine the upvoteRate calculation, and we could experiment with adding that to our model.
- kqr 4y agoWhat percentage do you believe does not come from the front page? Is it big enough to actually be worried about?
- jwarden 4y agoIf it's on rank 1 of the front page, then the vast majority of votes come from the front page. But if it's at rank 90 of the front page, and rank 1 of the new or the best page, then in those cases only a minority of upvotes may be coming from the front page. If HN implemented this, they would know where the vote is coming from. But on Quality News we could just assume there was an X% chance the vote was from the front page, a Y% it was the new page, etc., and adjust our upvoteRate formula based on that.