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Re:Ask YC: Redo the Leaderboard by kirubakaran on Friday December 28, 2007 @07:23PM (#93363)
Karma Decay Function

Everyday everyone's karma gets multiplied by n where 0<n<1. (0.9 seems good)

Re:Ask YC: Redo the Leaderboard by ggrot on Friday December 28, 2007 @11:35PM (#93410)
I was gonna suggest something like this. Or apply a similar ranking function to the leaderboards as you do the the articles.