Note that this article is from 2010. The most recent code for the Reddit ranking algorithms is here: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/db/

Note that this article is from 2010. The most recent code for the Reddit ranking algorithms is here: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/db/_sorts.pyx https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/db/_s... It looks like they've tweaked the confidence sort algorithm a bit.