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What makes you so confident it's not the algorithm? I'm pretty sure it's been well established that a high comment-to-upvote ratio causes the HN ranking algori
by javawizard 3y ago
What makes you so confident it's not the algorithm?
I'm pretty sure it's been well established that a high comment-to-upvote ratio causes the HN ranking algorithm to penalize a story.
- Aachen 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2023-06-05 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2023-06-05 see top entry: more comments than points, yet stands solid at #1. Pretty sure I've also seen 2:1 ratios before rather than the 1:1 that this is (but I don't remember around which date that might have occurred or how to easily ctrl+f for it while browsing past days). I heard the same as you, but I wonder if it has more to do with how many downvotes/flags are being handed out in the comments compared to how many votes the story is getting, rather than the absolute number of comments.