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HN frontpage ranked by discussion activity

by mike_esspe on 8/3/14, 1:19 PM with 19 comments

  • by FatalLogic on 8/3/14, 2:32 PM

    This overrides a feature that I've seen described as the 'flame war detector'. If I understand the feature correctly, stories with a high ratio of comments to votes get a large ranking penalty. They tend to vanish suddenly and irreversibly from the front page when they pass the threshold, because they'll keep getting comments from participants, but don't have much opportunity to get any more votes from newcomers.

    For instance, the "Google tips off cops..." story is ranked 12 here, but has fallen to around 200 in the normal ranking.

  • by falava on 8/3/14, 2:23 PM

  • by lelf on 8/3/14, 2:00 PM

  • by 3rd3 on 8/3/14, 2:19 PM

    How about "slow" or "old" which would show submissions in which discussion still happens after x time units after submission date.

  • by simplify on 8/3/14, 4:34 PM

    Is there an opposite version? I've found that many of the best submissions have a high points-to-comments ratio.

  • by Walkman on 8/3/14, 2:31 PM

    Please put links for these views to the top!