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Please explain these other factors, I am genuinely interested. How do top comments stay top whilst accumulating a huge number of polar opposite commentary?
by teh_klev 13y ago
Please explain these other factors, I am genuinely interested. How do top comments stay top whilst accumulating a huge number of polar opposite commentary?
- steveklabnik 13y ago> How do top comments stay top whilst accumulating a huge number of polar opposite commentary? Note that this is not what I said. I just said that votes are not the only factor. > On the front page, by points divided by a power of the time since they were submitted. Comments in comment threads are ranked the same way. http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html Now, HN runs on a slightly modified version of news.arc, so we can't be 100% for sure. pg did give the formula a long time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417 TL;DR: time since the comment was left is often a factor.