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>>apengw+(OP)
I wonder if this HN post will get torpedoed as fast as the one from yesterday[0].

0. >>40435440

>>istjoh+Od
I really wish there was some simple calculations that could be shown on how posts are ranked. For eg post A has x upvotes, y comments, is z minutes old and therefore rank 2. Post B has these values, while C is here. Hence this post went down the front page quickly.

It's not that I don't trust the mods explicitly, it's just that showing such numbers (if they exist) would be helpful for transparency.

>>user_7+ei
People always interested and fascinated by the algorithm whenever it comes up. Dang makes the (correct) assertion that people will much more easily game it if they know the intricacies. PG always churlishly jumps in to say there’s nothing interesting about it and any discussion of it is boring.

Pretty asinine response but I work in Hollywood and each studio lot has public tours giving anyone that wants a glimpse behind the curtain. On my shows, we’ve even allowed those people to get off the studio golf cart to peek inside at our active set. Even answering questions they have about what they see which sometimes explains Hollywood trickery.

I’m sure there’s tons of young programmers that would love to see and understand how such a long-lasting great community like this one persists.

>>casefi+Ak
I dunno. This is standard practice for things like SEO algos to try to slow down spammers, or risk algos to slow down scammers.

HN drives a boatload of traffic, so getting on the front page has economic value. That means there are 100% people out there who will abuse a published ranking system to spam us.