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Re:U.S. Used Patriot Act to Gather Logs of Website Visitors by tsjq on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @12:05AM (#25355562)
https://archive.is/4a1oh

Curious. 4 minutes, no comments, and this in top-5 here. How ?

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Re:U.S. Used Patriot Act to Gather Logs of Website Visitors by tomhoward on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @12:16AM (#25355607)
It's not related to comments, it's based on votes and time - i.e., the vote count is downweighted as the time since posting increases.

So, a small number of legit votes soon after posting can easily get it to the top of the page, but then if there are no more votes it will drop quickly.

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Re:U.S. Used Patriot Act to Gather Logs of Website Visitors by est on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @12:15AM (#25355600)
if no comments submissions never reache the top how are people going to discover them?
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Re:U.S. Used Patriot Act to Gather Logs of Website Visitors by tsjq on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:21AM (#25356182)
My point is: if a post gathered enough votes (in 4minutes) to be on top-5, how come there's not a single comment yet? Generally, 4min old posts are found in the new items page.
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Re:U.S. Used Patriot Act to Gather Logs of Website Visitors by tomhoward on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:33PM (#25363333)
It takes more than 4 minutes to see the article there, read it, come back to HN and write/submit a comment.
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