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It's quite possible that there's a scaling factor (e.g. 0.3) applied to upvotes to stories submitted from reddit. Although the following linked pg comment is s
by mcphilip 14y ago
It's quite possible that there's a scaling factor (e.g. 0.3) applied to upvotes to stories submitted from reddit. Although the following linked pg comment is several years old, it does give insight into pg's goal to reduce the ease with which submissions of 'lightweight' content reach the top of the HN front page.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=294439 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=294439