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Thanks for reading the post. What do you think is wrong with the del.icio.us formula?
You just demonstrated one of the coolest things about posting at news.yc. You never know who you're gonna run into. Even when they're replying directly to you. edit: Hint, click his name...
Yippee! Thats great. But how did u findout delicious's and stumbleupon's? By reverse engineering technique... like... Were these found out(or guess-worked) by constantly keeping track of the ranking of content? Joshu, i think the del.icio.us formula is right, or they might just be using a different time constraint than 1 hour(maybe 2hrs or anything else). Because to findout what's popular they dont require any comple…
I would trust user 'joshu' on matters related to del.icio.us.
For reddit, this is the public algo released with their code. I think we should not assume that's the algo they use on reddit.com. Think about it: they could easily release a basic algo and keep the good one for their own internal use. At the very least, even reddit's blog post announcement of the code mentioned they're not open sourcing the spam detection code. Surely that's part of the ranking algo in that it deter…
For reddit, this is the public algo released with their code. I think we should not assume that's the algo they use on reddit.com. Think about it: they could easily release a basic algo and keep the good one for their own internal use. At the very least, even reddit's blog post announcement of the code mentioned they're not open sourcing the spam detection code. Surely that's part of the ranking algo in that it deter…
Yippee! Thats great. But how did u findout delicious's and stumbleupon's? By reverse engineering technique... like... Were these found out(or guess-worked) by constantly keeping track of the ranking of content? Joshu, i think the del.icio.us formula is right, or they might just be using a different time constraint than 1 hour(maybe 2hrs or anything else). Because to findout what's popular they dont require any comple…
I would trust user 'joshu' on matters related to del.icio.us.
Gojomo, is that really Joshua, the founder of Delicious and Memepool? I just guessed it when u mentioned the username in single quotes. ;) I wouldn't talk a word abt the algo then. :D
Use of true clock time in these formulas penalizes posts that are submitted at low-traffic times. Using a virtual clock, such as a tick count based on traffic (number of other submissions, votes, pageviews, etc.), could adjust for this.
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I would trust user 'joshu' on matters related to del.icio.us.
God! Gojomo, is that really Joshua, the founder of Delicious and Memepool? I just guessed it when u mentioned the username in single quotes. ;) I wouldn't talk a word abt the algo then. :D
I thought karma had an influence on how something appears. If not what is the point of karma?