Female Founders Conference

Re:Female Founders Conference by teh_klev on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @08:26PM (#7100018)

Please explain these other factors, I am genuinely interested. How do top comments stay top whilst accumulating a huge number of polar opposite commentary?

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Re:Female Founders Conference by steveklabnik on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @08:29PM (#7100037)

> How do top comments stay top whilst accumulating a huge number of polar opposite commentary?

Note that this is not what I said. I just said that votes are not the only factor.

> On the front page, by points divided by a power of the time since they were submitted. Comments in comment threads are ranked the same way.

http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Now, HN runs on a slightly modified version of news.arc, so we can't be 100% for sure. pg did give the formula a long time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417

TL;DR: time since the comment was left is often a factor.

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