Comment by sdoowpilihp
12 years ago
The relevance of the article has changed, hence the upvotes. The point of the system is to deliver articles, that at any given time, are most relevant to the audience reading them (which is why I would imagine I have not seen many articles about Fortran frameworks or the Princess Diana death on the front page as of late). It's also the reason that articles have a karma decay formula based on time.
His point exactly
There's also some randomness and stochasticity to the process, and you just have to accept it.