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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by pault on Sunday November 20, 2016 @10:36AM (#12999318)
It's dangerous to go alone. Take this: https://news.ycombinator.com/best
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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by erichocean on Sunday November 20, 2016 @10:49AM (#12999389)
It's hilarious that HN conflates popularity with "best".

So even at HN, the most addictive content is considered to have the highest value. Seems…topical.

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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by striking on Sunday November 20, 2016 @07:08PM (#13002085)
The way this usually works, at least in comment threads, is that usually upvotes end up being stronger than downvotes. So the most popular thought in the community ends up at the top of the page... and then usually, the most popular counter-argument is its highest child.

It's interesting to see HN debate itself. The asymmetrical karma allocation can be a really interesting factor.

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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by dang on Monday November 21, 2016 @12:34AM (#13003396)
The name of that page goes back close to ten years, when HN was created. That was a time when lots of people had more faith in social forum upvoting than they/we do now.
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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by pault on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @03:17PM (#13017271)
Hi dang, I could swear I once saw a list of front pages with different algos, but now I can't find it for the life of me. Also, is there a "most commented" or "controversial" page?
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