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I'm not sure if this is actually better. up down score 100 100 50 20 0 20 100 200 33 100 300 25 100 400 20 W
by zck 17y ago
I'm not sure if this is actually better.
up down score
100 100 50
20 0 20
100 200 33
100 300 25
100 400 20
Wouldn't you want a comment with 20 upvotes and no downvotes to rank above a comment with 100 upvotes and 300 downvotes? It gets even worse for higher numbers:
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200 1800 20
300 4200 20
400 7600 20
- antirez 17y agoYou can change this factor just modifying a bit the equation. In the vanilla version the amount of votes play a very important role indeed, but it's simple to hack it in order for avoid this problem. For instance using the logarithm instead of do everything linear like I did.
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