Comment by deepakkarki
8 years ago
I wonder how the HN ranking algorithm works - even with so much discussion and upvotes/hr this thread has already slipped to #24. I find that awkward!
8 years ago
I wonder how the HN ranking algorithm works - even with so much discussion and upvotes/hr this thread has already slipped to #24. I find that awkward!
There's a flamewar detector that demotes threads with more comments than points. More discussion is not an unambiguous positive signal.
It's at #17, a couple hours later, as the number of points is now 700+ and comments is in the 300s.
I was wondering the same thing. Thought the thread got deleted or something.