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Oops, I deleted my comment b/c I used the wrong example, but you already replied before I caught it. Your answer makes sense.

Here's a corrected comment:

Something weird has happened to how things are ordered on the front page too. Right now, this post has 87 points, was posted 4 hours ago, but it's below "Google Search/Web History..." which has 80 points and was posted 7 hours ago.

It used to be just # of points with a time-decay function, but now there's some other variable. Anyone know? reply



Other posts have as factors:

- age

- number of upvotes

- number of flags (roughly 10x an upvote per flag)

- number of comments

And possibly other factors.




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