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0 pointstehwalrus9y ago0 comments

That's awesome. Are these just comments with a high karma, or is there some other magic going on?

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Seems like a combination of length and karma — or maybe length and karma just happen to correlate? There are short ones in there too. Hmm.

bkanber9y ago

My guess is it's a simple time-decay-weighted karma-based formula. That is, karma * e ^ -age. "Best" vs "top" may be the difference in net karma vs gross positive karma.

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0 pointstehwalrus9y ago0 comments

That's awesome. Are these just comments with a high karma, or is there some other magic going on?

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exolymph9y ago

Seems like a combination of length and karma — or maybe length and karma just happen to correlate? There are short ones in there too. Hmm.

bkanber9y ago

My guess is it's a simple time-decay-weighted karma-based formula. That is, karma * e ^ -age. "Best" vs "top" may be the difference in net karma vs gross positive karma.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse