To do this effectively, you need to track clicks. Right now, the primary thing that causes something to succeed on reddit is the rate of upvotes. Anything that

To do this effectively, you need to track clicks. Right now, the primary thing that causes something to succeed on reddit is the rate of upvotes. Anything that takes time to upvote will be less likely to succeed, because it will receive its initial upvotes at a lower rate. (It takes at least an hour to upvote a great new yorker article vs. something that will be voted based on the title alone or a 1 second click.) To fix this, you need to track click -> upvote interval and correct for this. This is the main reason why subreddit quality goes down with size. Only the extreme head of the "upvote rate" distribution has an opportunity to succeed when the subreddit is large, so the "upvote rate" drowns out the "upvote ratio" as a factor.