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Are we seeing two different HNs? I see Lessig's post at #80 and 245 points.

• stinos 13y ago
  Sorry should have been clearer. My point was: the "Winter is coming" post was posted around the same time as Lessig's post, has less points and yet is at #20. How does that happen? Btw, only 15 minutes after your original post, and Lessig's post know is upvoted to 245 points already yet is 2 places down...
  • mattmanser 13y ago
    pg mentioned in a thread about 'where did X MS post go' that posts can trigger flamewar detectors which penalizes the post heavily. It's not a simple votes/age thing.
  • ars 13y ago
    It's not total votes that counts, but rather votes per time. So two posts of the same age and same vote count could be in different places if one has recent votes and the other older votes.
    • dangrossman 13y ago
      PG posted the HN ranking algorithm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417 The time of the votes is not taken into account. The time-based decay is only based on the submission time. A story with the same votes and same submission time will have the same rank regardless of when the votes occurred, all other factors being equal.