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A comment on Twist – the communication app for teams (by Todoist).

Re:Twist – the communication app for teams (by Todoist) by the_common_man on Thursday June 22, 2017 @03:17AM (#14610650)
Can someone tell me how something with just 3 points appears on the front page? I feel there must be some way to game the HN sysem but I don't know what it is.

http://imgur.com/a/VeLRo

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Re:Twist – the communication app for teams (by Todoist) by mewwts on Thursday June 22, 2017 @03:19AM (#14610657)
Perhaps something like dp/dt? #points/(time of last point - time of first point)
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Re:Twist – the communication app for teams (by Todoist) by steeleduncan on Thursday June 22, 2017 @03:28AM (#14610682)
I'm not sure how it works these days, but I imagine it still has some relation to the arc sources

https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc#L26...

It is essentially what you suggested, but raising the bottom line to a power.

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