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932 points sohzm | 2 comments | 04 Jul 25 02:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.554s | source
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samtheprogram ◴[04 Jul 25 14:14 UTC] No.44464760[source]▶
What a joke. Nearly as many upvotes as tmux-rs in half the time, ~50% more comments, and this is just shy of the front page / twice as far from #1.

Doesn’t seem to match the natural algorithm.

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1. praash ◴[04 Jul 25 18:07 UTC] No.44466666[source]▶
My observation is that HN intentionally downranks highly commented threads. I used to think of it as unfair, but now it truly makes sense, considering:

- Posts with high comment-to-vote ratio often have political, scandalous or other kinds of heated themes

- Highly popular/engaging posts already act as self-amplifying snowballs

- High-volume discussion triggered by emotions is hard to navigate, is repetitive, and attracts the dumbest trolls even in HN

- The truly important topics tend to become visible anyway

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2. samtheprogram ◴[04 Jul 25 21:02 UTC] No.44467867[source]▶
This was informative. Thanks for the analysis.