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>>pg+(OP)
I wanted to see if there had been any visible decrease in quality. Doesn't look like it. There's surprisingly little difference between this and the regular frontpage.

>>pg+e
Considering, [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231209] are you still evaluating what makes the front-page according to this algorithm?

   (p - 1) / (t + 2)^1.5

It reminds me of the distance formula in a vacuum that evaluates [or rates] a submission as a ratio according to it's position out of 210 [basically any story with a non-zero karma value (p - 1) that evaluates <= 210 has made the front-page] I guess the gist of what I'm getting at is, how are you generating these lists? Are they all extended from this algorithm and filtered according to a condition? Have you ever generated a list that doesn't extend this algorithm?

[EDIT] Ok, so while I'm here, in this meta-HN of a thread, I'm going to ask a question that might seem like absolute bat-shit:

What is the running-total (summation) of all our Karma as users of HN?