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Re:Reverse Engineering the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm by jacquesm on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @01:14PM (#13869428)
That's not correct.

A person trying to game the front page could get all kinds of useful info from there. For instance how the flame detector and voting ring detector work and what penalties exist and when they trigger. The ranking algorithm is a lot more than a simple formula.

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Re:Reverse Engineering the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm by sillysaurus3 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @01:17PM (#13869461)
There was a flame detector (and presumably a voting ring detector) six years ago, but it wasn't revealed by pg showing off that algorithm. Dan could just redact whatever he's not comfortable showing.
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Re:Reverse Engineering the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm by TheSpiceIsLife on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @09:43PM (#13873148)
They effectively have redacted whatever they're not comfortable showing.
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