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At the moment this story has 2 upvotes in a half hour and is in the 8th position on the front page. Apparently HN has a fairy godmother algorithm that randomly
by delichon 2mo ago
At the moment this story has 2 upvotes in a half hour and is in the 8th position on the front page. Apparently HN has a fairy godmother algorithm that randomly promotes posts.
- mdrachuk 2mo agoGreat work HN team, since it’s indeed an interesting story.
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- kuboble 2mo agoI assume it was for 30 minutes in waiting with 0 votes before someone digged it out.
- calpaterson 2mo agoThat is indeed how it works https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool But not in this case. It's a slow Sunday afternoon and getting a few upvotes quickly is enough
- joshdavham 2mo agoInteresting! I didn't know about the 'pool' section of HN. Would you mind explaining to us how it works?
- calpaterson 2mo agoThere was a good explanation when they published the mechanism https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998309 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998309
- mr_toad 2mo agoMods might be amused to be described as fairly godmothers.
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