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If a story has 50 votes and was posted 5 hours ago, it should be ranked higher than any story that has less than 50 points and was posted more than 5 hours ago.
by cooldeal 14y ago
If a story has 50 votes and was posted 5 hours ago, it should be ranked higher than any story that has less than 50 points and was posted more than 5 hours ago. If not, it shows that the story was flagged.
Example: http://i.imgur.com/IlAn2.jpg http://i.imgur.com/IlAn2.jpg
Another example: http://i.imgur.com/fSJqq.png http://i.imgur.com/fSJqq.png
Also, Paul Thurott's http://winsupersite.com http://winsupersite.com is completely banned from HN, most probably due to excessively being flagged for the crime of being a Microsoft watcher news site.
- scott_s 14y agoI don't think the ranking algorithm is that simple - I think it takes into account recency of votes, although I'm not sure. The first example does not seem suspicious to me, although the second one is surprising to me.
- cooldeal 14y agoThe ranking algorithm is that simple. http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574 http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574 Watch articles that are critical of Apple or Google, or those are not critical of Microsoft, most of the time they get flagged down by overzealous fans. Edit: Happening right now to this very article :)
- scott_s 14y agoI recall Paul saying on HN that he tweaks with HN's algorithm, and those changes are not represented in what's posted on arclanguage.org. In fact, he says it in response to that writeup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417 There's also the voting ring detector, which is not distributed.