Ask HN: Seeing posts from 100 days ago within the top 125, anyone seen this?

#1

Post by jzworkman » Thu, Aug 23, 2012, 2:41 PM UTC

I was browsing HN today, and I wasnt logged in(dont know if this is the cause) and when I got to the 5th page, I started seeing posts from many days ago. I took a screen shot of the offending posts: http://i.imgur.com/yZymU.png

Has anyone else seen this before?

Re: Ask HN: Seeing posts from 100 days ago within the top 125, anyone seen this?

#2

Post by tjr » Thu, Aug 23, 2012, 2:44 PM UTC

A couple weeks ago I saw a post on the first or second page that had been from some weeks prior.

Re: Ask HN: Seeing posts from 100 days ago within the top 125, anyone seen this?

#3

Post by koopajah » Thu, Aug 23, 2012, 2:47 PM UTC

The discussion about rubymotion is currently #118 (I'm logged) and "PHP the right way" is #114. But what do you find surprising in this? The main page of HN features the most popular threads and I guess some of these threads have been referenced somewhere else and upvoted by people who did not see it before? At least I'm sure that http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4212568 has been referenced recently in another popular (meaning front-page) submission : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4412721

Re: Ask HN: Seeing posts from 100 days ago within the top 125, anyone seen this?

#4

Post by mrgreenfur » Thu, Aug 23, 2012, 2:52 PM UTC

Yeah seems to happen all the time once you get a few pages deep.

Re: Ask HN: Seeing posts from 100 days ago within the top 125, anyone seen this?

#5

Post by jzworkman » Thu, Aug 23, 2012, 2:53 PM UTC

tjr wrote: post #2

A couple weeks ago I saw a post on the first or second page that had been from some weeks prior.

Yea I just think it is weird the algortihm is picking up an article from over 100 days ago, and showing up in the top 125 posts.

Re: Ask HN: Seeing posts from 100 days ago within the top 125, anyone seen this?

#6

Post by jzworkman » Thu, Aug 23, 2012, 2:56 PM UTC

koopajah wrote: post #3

The discussion about rubymotion is currently #118 (I'm logged) and "PHP the right way" is #114. But what do you find surprising in this? The main page of HN features the most popular threads and I guess some of these threads have been referenced somewhere else and upvoted by people who did not see it before? At least I'm sure that http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4212568 has been referenced recently in another pop…

I was just surprised that all of the posts #110-120 are from between 7 and 111 days ago. I have usually not seen that old of posts breaking the top 125 like that(I thought the algorithm was supposed to target new posts)