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Re:Apple censors Lawrence Lessig over warranty information by stinos on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @05:30AM (#6632837)
Sorry should have been clearer. My point was: the "Winter is coming" post was posted around the same time as Lessig's post, has less points and yet is at #20. How does that happen?

Btw, only 15 minutes after your original post, and Lessig's post know is upvoted to 245 points already yet is 2 places down...

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Re:Apple censors Lawrence Lessig over warranty information by ars on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @05:40AM (#6632867)
It's not total votes that counts, but rather votes per time. So two posts of the same age and same vote count could be in different places if one has recent votes and the other older votes.
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Re:Apple censors Lawrence Lessig over warranty information by dangrossman on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @06:06AM (#6632970)
PG posted the HN ranking algorithm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417

The time of the votes is not taken into account. The time-based decay is only based on the submission time. A story with the same votes and same submission time will have the same rank regardless of when the votes occurred, all other factors being equal.

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Re:Apple censors Lawrence Lessig over warranty information by mattmanser on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @05:35AM (#6632850)
pg mentioned in a thread about 'where did X MS post go' that posts can trigger flamewar detectors which penalizes the post heavily.

It's not a simple votes/age thing.

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