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Re:Samsung Acquires Joyent by tehwalrus on Thursday June 16, 2016 @11:48AM (#11916892)
That's awesome. Are these just comments with a high karma, or is there some other magic going on?
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Re:Samsung Acquires Joyent by exolymph on Thursday June 16, 2016 @12:31PM (#11917175)
Seems like a combination of length and karma — or maybe length and karma just happen to correlate? There are short ones in there too. Hmm.
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Re:Samsung Acquires Joyent by bkanber on Thursday June 16, 2016 @01:23PM (#11917527)
My guess is it's a simple time-decay-weighted karma-based formula. That is, karma * e ^ -age. "Best" vs "top" may be the difference in net karma vs gross positive karma.
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