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Re:Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors by c22 on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:08PM (#16440404)
Anecdotally I find the largest factors affecting number of upvotes are time of day and how recently the thread has been on the front page.
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Re:Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors by bjelkeman-again on Thursday February 22, 2018 @07:02PM (#16442824)
Comments higher up on the page also get more upvotes. Not everyone reads all of the comments and you get this effect.
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Re:Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors by BatFastard on Thursday February 22, 2018 @06:29PM (#16442591)
dat true!
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