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That's what I thought at first too, but the data makes it clear that it isn't just based on votes weighted by subscriber count either.
by dazmax 12y ago
That's what I thought at first too, but the data makes it clear that it isn't just based on votes weighted by subscriber count either.
- ketralnis 12y agoIt's not votes weighted by subscriber count at all. It's "hotness" weighted by the hotness of the highest-hotness link per subreddit Hotness: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/db/_sorts.pyx#L45-L56 https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/db/_s... Front-page weighting: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/normalized_hot.py https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/norma...