This is pretty fascinating. The most important thing I notice almost immediately is that there are generally two classes of articles: 1. those which reach the

This is pretty fascinating. The most important thing I notice almost immediately is that there are generally two classes of articles: 1. those which reach the front page by virtue of quickly getting a few votes while they are young and then dwindle 2. those which barely reach the front page and have some kind of resurgence (discernible by a large jump in front page rank). It'd be interesting to group articles based on how they perform like this and see if there are any other correlated factors. My feeling is that the ones with resurgence are either long and require some amount of karma "activation energy" before people are willing to dive into them or that they're ones with long conversation chains which have a spike for similar reasons.